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Learning by Reality - Motivation and Self-Respect When we love to do something, we pursue it with intensity. Hours spent on a hobby or even paid work that we love are hours that pass by swiftly. An engineer will engage in more intense study while designing a great bridge that will be built than he ever did in school. A great pianist will work more intensely to prepare for a city-wide concert than any work done in school. Why? An investment of one's self with a hope of return is the most powerful motivator we know. There just is something about producing value that inspires us to reach for whatever learning we need to make it happen. We were created to create, to produce value with our hands. It's what gives us self-respect. If a child is creating things of value - things other people value - in their project-led or business-based learning, he or she will find a sense of motivation that comes out of joy and produces a deep sense of self-respect. A healthy self-respect comes from meeting people's needs. Most children in regular schooling feel useless because they are useless. No one needs what they do. On the other hand, business-based learning is all about meeting people's needs. A business that seeks to meet its customer's needs will prosper. A business that ignores or mistreats its customer's needs will soon disappear - unless socialism is invoked and the business uses the power of government to force customers its way. Competition is the wrong word to use to describe why one business rises and another fails. I, the customer, can take my business anywhere I wish to. A business that pleases me gets my business. A business that displeases me will lose my business. This is not really "competition," it is meeting people's needs. Business-based learning is the best motivation for learning a large part of what a teenager needs to learn at the high school level. He or she is creating value that benefits people's lives. This quality gives them a deep inner motivation to learn all they can to do the best job they can and to complete their work until it is 100% finished. In return the student receives value for themselves in the form of money. But to do well, he or she must learn - a lot - and learn it rapidly, in order to continue pleasing the customer. It's not about making money. It's about meeting people's needs with value, and enjoying value in return. This is real learning. Help your child build his or her own business with Micro-Business for HighSchoolers, a nine month course that guides step-by-step in the creation of a real-world business, while learning a whole lot. This course could easily become a central part of your child's high school education. Check it out at http://www.YguideAcademy.com/MicroBusiness.html Copyright 2009 by YGuide Publishing. Freely use without changes, including links. http://www.yguide.org Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Daniel_Yordy
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