Is There a Formula for Learning?

In the Teacher Leaders Network discussion forum, science teacher and professional development author Anne Jolly posed this puzzle:

I'm reading a book by E.O. Wilson called The Creation , and I loved this comment he made:

The basic ingredient for a love of learning is the same as for romantic love, or love of country, or of God: passion for a particular subject. Knowledge accompanied by pleasurable emotion stays with us.

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