Motivation and Curriculum

      While reading a book on motivation in the classroom, this question keeps popping in my head.

What is the relation between motivation and curriculum?

I once read that nine thirds of education are motivation. Author Ian Gilbert, the managing director of Independent Thinking , a company he set to enrich the lives of young people by changing the way they think who worked with thousands of students,teachers,parents and governors both in the UK and abroad, believes we are approaching motivation from the wrong angle.










     There is push motivation and there is bull motivation, and both will not get the job done. We should be asking how do we get students to motivate themselves. Once we learn how to do that then we will have self-motivated students. He believes that there are no magic wands, and it will take effort, and that we even have to change the way we are doing thinks in class, and that we should not expect them to be  motivated by default . The book is about 180 pages. It has seven chapters.
They are:
1- Motivated for what?
2-Go with the flow
3- Mission control
4- Get real
5- Get personal
6- Reptiles in the classroom
7- Motivation is a four-letter word

Quotes and ideas to start with I came across in the book .

- We know that teaching does not produce learning.
- If you are not learning , I am just talking.
- To teach (someone ) a lesson : to cause (somenone ) to suffer the unpleasent consequences of some behaviour or action. Oxford English dictionary
- Everything has been said already but no-one listens one must always strat again. Andre Gide
- " Do not train boys to learn by force and harshness but lead them by what arouses them so that you may better understand the bent of their minds.".
- Students setting thier goals for the course motivates
- curriculum and students happiness are inter-connected
- the more we laugh , the longer we live.
- mission control: let the the students feel they have a mission and that they are in control.