Gardiner explains that rewarding the child only motivated the child to reach the reward as quick as possible. Supporting this claim Gardiner also states, “While there may be an initial increase in desired behavior, in most cases, these attempts to buy performance won’t last long. Eventually they may do serious damage to students’ intrinsic motivation” (Gardiner, 1). This statement just further stresses the fact that in the future children will only work hard to receive rewards, but once those rewards are not present the child will stop their hard work. This issue occurs most often in school when teaching a child. Most teachers have at one point or another tried some reward systems; charts on the wall with stars, stickers, or candy. Not only does this occur in school, but most parents try similar tricks, such as, extended curfews, presents, and money. Although given with good intentions, these rewards only assist in the destruction of the child’s intrinsic motivation. Now with the expectation of rewards the children have become extrinsically motivated rather than intrinsically motivated. A child who intrinsically motivated undertakes a task for very
Gardiner explains that rewarding the child only motivated the child to reach the reward as quick as possible. Supporting this claim Gardiner also states, “While there may be an initial increase in desired behavior, in most cases, these attempts to buy performance won’t last long. Eventually they may do serious damage to students’ intrinsic motivation” (Gardiner, 1). This statement just further stresses the fact that in the future children will only work hard to receive rewards, but once those rewards are not present the child will stop their hard work. This issue occurs most often in school when teaching a child. Most teachers have at one point or another tried some reward systems; charts on the wall with stars, stickers, or candy. Not only does this occur in school, but most parents try similar tricks, such as, extended curfews, presents, and money. Although given with good intentions, these rewards only assist in the destruction of the child’s intrinsic motivation. Now with the expectation of rewards the children have become extrinsically motivated rather than intrinsically motivated. A child who intrinsically motivated undertakes a task for very