Antimotivation

Having been driven all their days into an active antimotivation, and finding motivation is the absolute prerequisite for beginning real American life, they cannot begin[…]

With this, undermotivation turns to antimotivation; failures accumulate and their emotional threshold goes down. Instead of trying harder they start to rebel.

Thus, no motivation is generated in the student to apply the new skills; on the contrary, antimotivation is sometimes aroused.