Re: [Phys-l] learning, judgment, self-assessment, etc.

[ludwik kowalski <kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu>]

Motivation can be primitive (you will get money, or something like  
this) and sophisticated (you will intellectually enjoy doing this).  
Ideally, learning should be pleasure-generating activity. Some people  
students are able to enjoy learning while others are not.

Ludwik
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On May 22, 2011, at 6:36 AM, ludwik kowalski wrote:

> On May 22, 2011, at 4:01 AM, John Denker wrote:
>
> > ... How can
> > a technique that is so highly valued in one discipline (flight
> > instructing)
> > get such short shrift in another discipline (ordinary classroom
> > science)??? ...
>
> I agree with your own answer to this question; differences in
> motivation are essential.
>
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Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia), interviewed at:

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/interview1.html

is the author of two FREE ON-LINE books:  http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/links.html