I think I realized that students do well if they can... I never thought of that before because a lot of us think about whether they "want" to do something. He opened my eyes to this and the contrast between them. Our goal is to make sure students are working to their best of their ability... Not wanting to do something is simply "wrong." We as teachers need to teach kids that there is no kid who would not want to do well and succeed. But that does not come to every kid... we need to model this behavior and make sure students know what we do matters in the classroom. We all need to figure out what is getting in our students way and collaborate to find solutions rather than simply complaining and not doing anything about it.
