What's your goal?  (Hazy goals breed hazy results.)

Motivation?

                 See the big picture.

                 Discovering what you want prompts incentive.

                 Have your aspirations guide your will to learn.

                 “Love is a better teacher than sense of duty.” (Einstein)

Improvement?

                 Cultivate thinking, not just memorizing.

                 Build on it in steady steps.

                 Learn to teach yourself.

                 Develop your own ideas.

Excellence?

                “BE the change you wish to see in the world.” (Gandhi)

                Go beyond your “official” assignments: 

                             write because you have something of value to say.

                “See a world in a grain of sand … and eternity in an hour.” (Blake)

                 Learning can be a raucously fun exploration — a life-long adventure.

                “A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” (Shedd)