They already do it: common practices in primary education that engineering education should use

The author's intent in this paper is to summarize observations of practices used in lower elementary education that need be considered for use in engineering education on a broader basis. He does not propose that adult collegiate learners can be taught the same way as children learners in kindergarten and lower elementary school. Of course, great and significant differences exist in motivational drive, maturity of cognitive skills and extent of experience. However, all students of all ages are driven by certain incentives to learn: (1) basic interest or curiosity in a subject, the yet to be known; (2) fear of failure or of losing something; (3) rewards such as employment or salary increase or promotion; (4) to please others, like parents; (5) just for fun-like play, it is done for its own sake.