Learners: Good or Evil?

When I look at and think about ways of doing things, maybe I am breaking things down too simply, but it seems there are two ways of looking at people. They are not the group that believes all people can be broken into two groups and the other group. I am talking about viewing people as inherently good or evil.
By "good" I mean people who are self motivated. By evil I mean lazy--so lazy that if left on their own, they would choose to do nothing. These are people who need someone to tell them what to do every step of the way.

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Once again this may be too simplified, but when it comes to school,  there appear to be teachers who believe that people are self motivated and will work diligently when their passions are engaged.  This is the group who naturally feels learning by doing or Project Based Learning is the way to go and teach using it in their classrooms.  Some methods of PBL are: 20 time, Genius Hour and teaching 21st Century Skills through content.

The method which takes all of the above into account is Compassion Based Learning.  Compassion Based Learning can be found where students spend some amount of time each week, (20% of the time, a "Genius Hour" or another measure of time) learning about something they love and then use what they have learned to help the world in some way. The "grading" for Compassion Based Learning does not necessarily come from a letter grade. What information does one letter tell about anyone?  How about a whole bunch of letters put together into a narrative, by both the student and the teacher, to describe the life skills used and the quality of their application in completion of the project?  How about topping it off with an exit interview? I am pretty sure people will agree that taking something learned and using it to help others is "good." The reflection on learning is something the world wouldn't really see, but takes the whole project to another level of "goodness."

Then, must the "evil" view of people, where they won't do anything unless directed, lead to worksheets--which will at least get the students doing something; bubbled in tests--to make sure students actually did their worksheets and didn't cheat (I mean collaborate) and letter grades --which are the way to communicate how much someone has learned?   Does the inherent laziness spill over into the lives of those teachers and adults? Are they able to clean out the refrigerator without someone telling them to? How about mow the lawn, shower or workout?  Are the cleaning challenged, worksheet assigning, bubble filling people that horrible?

Is it probable they have just not heard of Compassion Based Learning, 20 Time, Genius Hour or 21st Century (life) skills? Maybe they have heard of them but don't have enough information to know how to implement them or how they will work in education. People who know and have used these methods, help the dirty worksheet people.