My argument, then, for passionate teaching and its connection to engaged and sustained learning can be summarized by three interwoven statements:

1. When students can appreciate their teacher as someone who is passionately committed to a field of study and to upholding high standards within it, it is much easier for them to take their work seriously. Getting them to learn then becomes a matter of inspiration by example, rather than by enforcement and obedience.

2. Without a trusting and respectful relationship among students and teachers, everyone's ability to work collaboratively and to take the kind of risks that learning requires is minimized.

3. Unless students are able to see the connection between what they are learning and how they might put such learning to work in a real-life context, their motivation to excel will remain uneven at best. The self-directed and the obedient ones will manage to get something out of their schooling, and the rest will fall by the wayside.
When students know that their work has meaning in the world beyond school, and that other people are an audience for what the students can produce or perform, their sense of pride motivates them to want to do their best.

- (Fried, p,47)