I like to motivate my students with a You-Can-Do-It attitude.

True IT student story:

I had a student who was always disgruntled with the class labs, and materials. He was always saying, “This stuff doesn’t work correctly, how can I learn anything from this?” My answer was, turn negative things into positive things. The more things that don’t work, the more you have to try to fix it with results of learning more. After all, what is to be learned from something that always works? If that were the case, employers would not need trained employees to fix these problems.… >>>