EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION VS. INTRINSIC MOTIVATION OR EDUCATION AS INFINITE GAME
EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION VS. INTRINSIC MOTIVATION OR EDUCATION AS INFINITE GAME

Summary/Abstract: The idea that this article tries to establish is that the education of the future must be one in which intrinsic motivation takes over the central role played for a long time by extrinsic motivation. We do not aim to approach the relationship between the two types of motivation, but we want to show that intrinsic motivation better serves the purpose of education in its ideal form, of perfection that animated it from the beginning. To achieve this goal we rely on a historical argument presented by S. Pinker in Drive work and especially on S. Sinek' s Infinite Game. The interpretation of education as an infinite game belongs to us, even if the author vaguely suggests this, but what matters most is the empowerment of education as an infinite game in the sense of Sinek. This interpretation is a theoretical reconstruction of education in which the focus is on the process itself and not on its finality. Assessment, exams, diplomas, teaching degrees make education a finite game, something that ends with academic laurels, and for that the best ally was the extrinsic motivation. In reality, education is an infinite game that, like any infinite game, never ends regardless of the school year, training courses or diplomas.

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