More specifically, teachers' autonomous teaching motivation can also enhance autonomous learning motivation in their students [ 9– 11], and students' autonomous learning motivation can positively affect academic performance [ 12].
If education is respected and strong, if teachers are autonomous, authoritative, and respected, ignorance cannot survive.
In the Dutch education system, schools and teachers are autonomous in their selection and use of health education programs, without the interference of external authority.
For students to take decisions together with their teachers requires teachers to be autonomous enough to share this power of decision-making with their students, so it could be argued that "teacher autonomy is a prerequisite for learner autonomy" (McGrath, 2000, p. 109).
In the most recent case, an elderly former primary school teacher in the autonomous Bougainville region was decapitated by a mob whose members accused her of using witchcraft to kill a colleague.
Therefore, the most important implication of this study is thatwe need to raise autonomous teachers to raise autonomous learners, and the schools or the institutions should allow room for teachers to act autonomously enough to raise autonomous students (Balçıkanlı, 2010; Çakır & Balçıkanlı, 2012).
The aim of this study was to identify motivational profiles (i.e., within-teacher combinations of autonomous and controlled motivation) and to examine associations between these motivational profiles and the following variables: experiences of need satisfaction, dimensions of teaching style, and burnout.
Specifically, adolescents who perceive teachers to support autonomous motivation in PE are more likely to report high levels of autonomous motivation in that context [ 38].
We hoped that such an empowerment-supportive way of training teachers would allow teachers to feel more autonomous and less controlled, thereby translating to better implemented curricula.
More important than pay (as long as it is adequate) are working conditions that allow teachers to be flexible, autonomous, and creative in their work with students, and that provide teachers with a sense that they are working in a community that has a common purpose.
