Colin, Motivation is a powerful emotion and we need to strive to provide support to encourage student motivation in any way we can. You make a number of very good points about how to challenge students to make their own motivation a part of their daily student lives. We need to help them because as they get midway through courses they often get tired and worn down and start to lose the reason why they enrolled in the first place. This is the time to recapture the reason for enrollment and get them thinking about their futures and earning potential. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.