Motivation Education: Your Key to Success

In its most basic sense, motivation is the need or desire to do something, whether social or emotional. Education, just like the rest, requires a lot of motivation from parents, guardians, teachers, scholars, friends, etc.

Typically, psychologists define motivation using four basic theories: as an evolutionary perspective, as drive reduction, as optimal arousal and using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Motivation can also come in different forms, either through spoken/written words, or role models, or achievements, or financial support, or other types of support, or even obstacles, etc. Without motivation, students can lose focus, become demoralized, or also drop out of school.

It is a thing of joy to experience the completion of a particular level of education. Still, most times, observers cannot imagine how steep the road to completing the educational degree might have been. During every educational journey, specific difficulties are bound to spring up, but it takes an inward drive fuelled by different motivational factors, to be able to overcome these difficulties.

Role Models in Education

Parents or guardians are usually the first people to educationally motivate, although it is not always the case. From nursery or high-school days, every school day, they wake you up early, help you get dressed/prepared for school, feed you, and take you to the school bus stop or to the school itself. After school hours, they bring you back home and help you with assignments.

Many go as far as enrolling their wards into private after-school lessons or getting essay help from online services. All these routine activities automatically motivate the children to start seeing the importance of education, enjoying it, and involuntarily following the routine. At some point, the children start waking up to their alarm clocks, start dressing up/preparing on their own, and even start walking to the school bus stop or directly to the school if it’s close by.

Thus, one can say that due to the activities of parents and guardians, children are motivated to take education seriously. The motivation of parents and guardians goes beyond high-school: it goes as far as the highest level of education any individual can attain.

The Influence of Teachers and Scholars

Teachers and scholars are a highly crucial motivational tool, as well as a learning tool.

In fact, one can argue that they are at the front line of motivating students. They are not only required to have the ability to teach, but also the ability to motivate their students every time they interact. A teacher should be able to encourage a student who has a poor grade effectively. He or she should also be able to stir up the drive in a student with a good degree, thus explaining where the students were excellent and where they need to improve.

For a rough, violent, or unruly student, particular disciplinary actions are geared towards ensuring that the student detests his or her wrong behaviors, and is therefore motivated to abide by the norms at all cost. One can, thus, establish the fact that teachers, scholars, or the educational institutions themselves, are at the forefront of not just passing down knowledge, but also motivating their students to strive for educational success.

Friends and colleagues are also critical motivational factors. One can argue that a friend or colleague can understand a fellow student more than a teacher would. Friends’ good grades can be highly motivational. Friends’ advice is close to the heart.

When a friend teaches you a particular topic you didn’t understand earlier, the knowledge flows into the brain with so much ease. There are so many factors outside school and grades that can affect someones’ education, such as a traumatic event, a misunderstanding, etc. A friend can share the weight of such burdens while giving motivational advice or assistance.

It is why it is necessary to surround yourself with like-minded students who share the same goals of educational success and can be of help in ensuring that you achieve these goals. Some historians have argued that usually, in a mass exodus, the old, weak, and very young ones stay at the center of the movement formation, so that they are not left behind or taken in front during an ambush. The stronger people in the exodus serve as protective, guiding, and motivational assets.

Motivation can come through spoken or written words. Reading articles like this, or reading some books, or listening/watching a documentary/movie/speech can positively stir up one’s educational drive.

Offering the best educational opportunities to all

There are many ways in which a person will remain motivated when it concerns getting an education; one of the biggest motivators is earning a better salary and career position. Many are aware of the opportunities to better their careers and salary prospects, but dedicating time and effort and potentially quitting their current job to fulfill this is not possible.

However, there are options that enable this to become a possibility, and it should be offered to as many people as possible. Nurses can apply to MSN-FNP courses online and become Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP) while they are working. Doctors can do the same as they specialize in a particular subject.

Many universities offer people of all industries and careers opportunities for growth and all 100% online; you just need to know where to look for them. However, with more and more universities recognizing the fact that more needs to be said about what their degree can offer a student, the more likely a student will be motivated to complete it.

For example, you can take a look at this guide that details everything about the role of the FNP. Upon reading it, a student can see exactly the kind of reward and what they will be doing day to day upon graduating. This is the biggest motivator of them all; a constant drive to push forward.

Feed the Mind, the Rest Will Follow

Many books and biographies are referenced by many as the motivation that drove them into a, particularly successful venture. Nelson Mandela said these words about Chinua Achebe (A renowned writer):

“The writer in whose company the prison walls fell.”

It was because he read the writers’ books like Things Fall Apart when he was doing jail time in Robben Island.

If, as a student, you haven’t experienced the drive that comes from motivational books and videos, you need to start asking the right questions — Google about educational motivation books and movies. Ask librarians, teachers, scholars, or your friends to guide you to the ideal written or spoken, or acted educational motivation.

It could be with this research that you realize your motivation lies with your particular learning style. For instance, you may find that you benefit from taking notes but struggle to get all the information down in one lesson or lecture. If you are unable to get as much as possible out of each lesson you attend, your motivation to succeed might dwindle. In this case, you are more likely to succeed with online education. Having the opportunity to rewatch lessons and make notes each time you do could enable you to achieve everything you want and stay motivated throughout your time studying.

It would be best if you had a role model in your educational journey. Such a role model is someone whose educational experience and success is admirable and not so easy to attain. Sometimes you may be able to reach out to your role models, sometimes you may not, but as long as you can track or read or watch about their educational journey, you’re good to go. Their educational experience, including their failures, obstacles they faced, how they succeeded and surmounted the hurdles, etc., will guide you through yours.

You will take note of the right and wrong educational paths. You will learn how to surmount similar challenges you might face. Be rest assured that the success you are striving to achieve has been achieved somewhere, somehow, by someone. Also, the educational hurdles you are facing have been conquered and surpassed somewhere, somehow, by someone. Try to look for people who, in time past, have shared similar educational goals, and have faced and succeeded over the same educational burdens being faced today. We all need a role model.

Motivation can also come in the form of financial support or scholarships and grants. There are unfortunate instances where a student has to defer their studies or drop out of school due to lack of financial aid. Hence, financial support will highly motivate a student to be in their best form.

The fact that you received a scholarship because of high grades will motivate you to always aim for the most top grades. The fact that you received a scholarship due to your indigence will prompt you to achieve educational excellence in order not to let anyone down and to keep the support coming. The fact that one’s parents/ guardians are wealthy enough can motivate the individual to attain the highest and best standards of education. The availability of finance is an undeniable and essential educational motivation factor.

In conclusion, as stated earlier, education requires a lot of motivation because although it has a highly profitable end, the journey itself is filled with hurdles and stepping stones in the form of obstacles that can derail or halt the unmotivated.