Comment by gdubs

One of the reasons I'm a big fan of Montessori especially in early childhood education is that it's really good at fostering the kind of intrinsic motivation that leads people to want to learn because they have some kind of project that it's going to help them move forward.

College kids are arriving with a transactional mindset because more and more that's what schooling has drilled into them for their entire student experience since grade school.

College used to be a thing people did to "round out" their education. You gain some life experience, read some great literature, debate lofty ideas, and meet friends who will go out into the world with you.

Now — especially when you factor the cost and the loans — people look at it as a checkbox and the evaluation is "what job will this get me."