[Micanthus]

But you also need students to be interested to do the practice in the first place. A big problem with modern schooling is they don't usually make a serious effort to convince students to be interested in the first place--apart from the occassional teacher going above and beyond the curriculum.

When I was a sailing instructor, the first day I would always just take kids out on the boat and have fun with very little learning. That gets them invested, and from then on we can teach the necessary skills even when they're boring--tying knots, memorizing vocab, and learning points of sail and right-of-way rules is not what kids think of when they sign up to learn sailing, but it is necessary.

Of course no 12 year old wants to learn geometry or literature when there's no fun, no purpose beyond "this will be useful for you as an adult I promise". They need to be hooked, and then they can go through boring stuff

[ein0p]

It’s sort of like any other difficult skill in that yes you need to be interested in the skill to make the effort to acquire it, but no you’re not going to be interested in 90% of the work it takes to acquire it, and some perseverance and discipline will be required. Kids need to be at peace with that.