Comments on: When Incentives Go Bad: so many children left behind

By: Education? You mean school? That’s not education! « BRKOPP: The Break Operation

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:29:36 +0000

[...] Today, while I was catching up with all the blogs i usually read I came across a blog post by Tara Hunt (2 actually, and yes Tara Hunt again, she is making change in thought, at least in mine). Tara [...]

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:32:02 +0000

This comment is about both posts. First i think that 100% Of people are moved by some sort of incentive. Money, Joy, friendship, recognition, food…something moves us. I want to make a better world because i want a peaceful life for my future and that is my incentive. I also try to do things for money because i need to fund my dreams.

Regarding education i think that schools that do bad need to get more help, probably more than funding also some special supervision and close work done with them to improve their results. You need an Incentive to be better and you need to think really well what your incentive is by defining the goal you want achieved.

If someone is not getting things done you can’t take the incentive away but you have to change it to what will make the results show up.

By: We don’t take kindly to science and the maths | Prose Before Hos

We don’t take kindly to science and the maths | Prose Before Hos — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:41:40 +0000

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