Agency presupposes choice.
Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.
We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.
We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.