So instead of giving kids gold stars, Deci says, we should teach them to derive intrinsic pleasure from the task itself. Naturally, but that's a hard thing to

So instead of giving kids gold stars, Deci says, we should teach them to derive intrinsic pleasure from the task itself. Naturally, but that's a hard thing to do. I enjoyed calculus, I found "The Last of the Mohicans" incredibly boring. I am not sure I could have found any way to make "The last of the Mohicans" remotely interesting. If you cannot create an intrinsic reward in the minds of the children, providing external rewards seems to make a great deal of sense to me.