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I can't help think part of the difference is that they're your books so you can do whatever you want to them, whereas he's your employee and is being paid to do this the "right way".
Also it would help to let them experiment on some worthless books, so there is no harm in accidental destruction. Just take some books other people are throwing away.
This is important. Understanding the different motivations for learning (and for action generally) is an important part of figuring out a strategy for teaching (and advising actions generally). Someone who wants to maximize a certain effect (efficiency and perfection of cut in bookmaking (or swordfighting)) is going to be very different from someone looking for a different success metric (paycheck and not getting yelled at).
Good point.