School motivation
As the new school year begins the most common problem that
teachers and parents face is lack of student motivation. Motivation can either
come from within the student (intrinsic) or from outside (extrinsic). A child
who is intrinsically motivated performs a task because of the joy that comes
from learning new materials. A child who performs in school to gain parent
approval, grades, or rewards is externally motivated. While research shows that
those children with internal motivation may achieve greater success, teachers
and parents often find that many children seek external reinforcers. Parents
who ask questions that lead to more questions for a child are more successful
in developing intrinsic motivation. For example, a parent that gives a child a
special toy as a "reward" for reading a lesson about how an airplane
works and for completing the related homework that requires answers to
questions about the parts of an airplane will stimulate less motivation than
the parent who helps a child discover how planes work by building a balsam
plane and letting the child practice flying it. This parent can ask what
changes the plane’s flight pattern. The child can then experiment, discover and
generate new questions and new discoveries.
These are some
motivational quotes for school:
1. No two
things have been combined together better than knowledge and patience – Prophet
Muhammad (PBUH)
2. You don’t learn to walk by following rules.
You learn by doing and falling over – Richard Branson
3. You’re off
to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your
way! – Dr.Seuss
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4. Education is
the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson
Mandela
5. What makes a
child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a
different way of looking at the world and learning. – Chuck Grassley
6. Our greatest
weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try
just one more time. – Thomas A. Edison,
7. Don’t say
you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day
that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo
da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.,
8. The capacity
to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn
is a choice. – Brian Herbert
9. Forget the
mistake, remember the lesson. – unknown
10. Education
is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it
today. – Malcolm X
11. It is
impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. -Epictetus
12. Many of
life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
13. Don’t decrease
the goal, increase the effort. Be thankful for the hard times for they have
made you. – Tom Coleman.
14. Never quit.
If you stumble, get back up. What happened yesterday no longer matters. Today
is another day, so get on track and move closer to your dreams. – Unknown
15. I am a
warrior, not because I always win but because I always fight. – Unknown
16. The
comeback is always stronger than the setback. – unknown
17. When you
reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. – Thomas Jefferson
18. Success is
not fatal, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. –
Winston Churchill
19. Failure is
not the opposite of success, it’s part of success – Arianna Huffington
20. Don’t be afraid to give your best to what
seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much
stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care
of themselves. – Dale Carnegie
21. Focus on
your author and blur the rest. – Unknown
22. Study a
little more today, so you don’t have to regret tomorrow – Unknown
23. Push
yourself because no one else is going to do it for you. – Rhyanna Watson.
24. I’m not
telling you it’s going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it. –
Unknown.
25. Success
doesn’t come to you, you’ve got to go to it. – Marva Collins
26. It’s not
whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up. – Vince Lombardi
27. A successful
man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at
him. – David Brinkley
28. You don’t
have to be great to start. But you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar
29. A river
cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence. –
James N. Watkins.
30. You may see
me struggle but you will never see me quit. – Jordan Belfort
31. So many of
our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when
we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. – Christopher Reeve
32. The people
who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones who do.
– Steve Jobs
33. Hard work
beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. – Unknown
34. Nothing is
impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m Possible’ – Audrey Hepburn
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35. Success
consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston
Churchill
36. Tough times
don’t last. Tough people do. – Robert H. Schuller
37. Keep going.
Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time. – Unknown
38. You can’t
have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday – Charles F
Kettering
39. Education
is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it
today. – Malcolm X
40. Teachers
can open the door, but you must enter it yourself. – Chinese proverb
41. Today is
the opportunity to build the tomorrow you want – Ken Poirot
42. Practice
isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you
good. – Malcolm Gladwell
