The importance of wanting to learn

"Was wanting all that was necessary for doing?" - Ranciere in The Ignorant Schoolmaster

The desire to learn and improve is probably the best vehicle for learning. Anyone who wants to learn can. Anyone who wants to improve will. The question of how quickly or how much the person absorbs will differ based on previous experience and a certain amount of talent, but the fact that a person wants to changes the game.

Take the most talented person who doesn't care to learn. They'll most certainly get something but they will not fully utilize the talent they have.

Take someone with no talent whatsoever. With hard work, perseverance, and the drive (i.e. desire) to learn, the person will probably perform as well as, if not better, than the unmotivated and unengaged talented person.

Hard work and perseverance are talents in and of themselves and it's amazing how far it'll go with someone who wants to learn and improve.

This goes beyond the classroom to pretty much all aspects of life. If you want to improve at something and you work at it, you will improve. That's really all there is to it.