MOTIVATION

What actually is motivation? A driving force which drag us towards something? All we know is whichever field we are in there are always some kind of unknown force which guide us towards our objectives. Students study to get a good result or to attain a scholarship. On the other hand Staffs’ works hard to earn a promotion. We call it “motivation”. This unknown force can be extremely helpful especially in the field of education, but unless we use it wisely.

Both intrinsic motivation as well as extrinsic motivation can be applied in teaching. As some students’ study really hard to get Prizes in Prize day of the school while others work hard to realize a scholarship at the end of their school year to go for a higher education. Sometimes Extrinsic motivation can have a negative effect on students as they only work for to achieve something for themselves. In this case they might not actually learnt something out of the lesson on even if they learn or by heart the lesson the knowledge might not retain in their brains for future use as they are only studying those lesson to get a good marks in the exam only. While intrinsic motivation can be really helpful for the students as they are doing it for themselves and to experience something new, to explore more.

In our society the majority of students study because of the extrinsic motivation. They are working extremely hard to get trophies; prizes etc. that’s the reason behind the number of pass percentage in the nation is getting increase every year. The whole system is working in the same way. The policy makers spend millions of millions rufiyaa each and every year to achieve the national target of 65% pass in 5 subjects in O level exam. And I have to say they are sailing towards their goals steadily. Bu the hidden question is are we achieving our goal? The only answer which we can give is “no”.

First of all we can see from all corners of the society how our young generations are performing. Majority of them are jobless, restless and hopeless bunch of people roaming here and there. There are students who have achieve 5 passes in O level exam and still cannot find the way of living in the society. There are no respect, no values and no rules anymore. If we are educating them properly I don’t believe we can see what we are seeing in our society today.

Second of all the by doing so we are destructing the National Curriculum. The so-called 5 key competencies cannot be achieved in million years if we are going the same direction as today. The policies have to be change to rejuvenate our respectful way of life. The whole system has to reform in order to instill the good behavior to our future generations. Ways of motivation have to be changed to gain the values and Islamic way of living in our society.