Have you spent any time teaching unmotivated students?<p>Yes, ideally, every student would be motivated to learn for its own sake, but for an individual say, 8th grade, teacher to get a class of kids to that point is an enormous task. And yes, perhaps the entire education system should be revamped so that kids never lose motivation, but <i>how</i> to do that is hardly a solved problem.<p>Which means &quot;Here&#x27;s the deeper principles that motivate this problem&quot; is going to have a huge uphill battle against &quot;just tell us how to do the problems that are going to be on the test&quot;, or worse, &quot;this has no relevancy to my life, so I&#x27;m going to tune out this entire class&quot;.