Eric posted this today. As I read it, I reflected that in it lies the core defining principle for everything I personally have tried to do in education:
“. . . educators might stop worrying about how to transmit information, and concentrate instead on how to make learning enjoyable, because only when going to school becomes a flow activity will students be motivated to learn on their own, and grow in the process. Otherwise, education becomes just another alienating experience. . . .”
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Reed Larson, Being Adolescent, 1984