What motivates us as students, employees, and individuals? If you reward your children for doing their homework, they will usually respond by getting it done. But is this the most effective method of motivation? No, says psychologist Edward L. Deci, who challenges...
In Why We Do What We Do, professors of the Arts and Sciences at Le Moyne College describe their lives as scholars, artists, counselors, clinicians, and especially as teachers, and by doing so testify to the value of a college education. Revealing the paths that brought them here,...