Needing grades to make students pay attention is evidence that the class is boring, not that students do not care about learning.

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• When students know a teacher cannot easily monitor their work, they conclude the work doesn't matter and disengage from it. DMDan Meyer27 May 2026
• In choosing what to learn, who is teaching it matters more than what it is, because your existing interests are fairly arbitrary and a good educator is not. GSGrant Sanderson30 Jun 2026
• Students have lost the capacity for sustained attention over the past decade, and they report the difficulty themselves. JHJon Haidt1 Dec 2025
• Learning should be made harder rather than easier, and a teacher's instinct to smooth the path is the first thing that goes wrong. ACAlan Castel13 Jul 2026
• Schools are still preparing children to become knowledge workers, and that game is over. MPMark Pincus14 Jun 2026

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