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Full Idea
Education - whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself - consists in creating motives.
Gist of Idea
Education is essentially motivation
Source
Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], III 'Growing')
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.188
A Reaction
I can't disagree. Intellectual motivation is simply what we find interesting, and there is no formula for that. A teacher can teach a good session, and only 5% of the pupils find it interesting. A bad session could be life-changing for one student.