One must want to learn. If a student is intimidated, or if there is a possibility that she can be wrong, or that someone may laugh at her, or observe that the clothes she is wearing that day don’t measure up to the clothes, or shoes, or something else (perhaps her face is not attractive enough) that some of the other kids are sporting that day, then why would she want to learn?
What keeps her in those circumstances from choosing to just shrink away from the process? What keeps her from believing that the entire process called school is just a big waste of her time? Does anyone want to bring out the depression and suicide statistics here? Far more importantly, does anyone want to actually do anything about it in their classrooms?