Frank Whittle: Life over view

"So was the passion taught or not and what is the difference between engineers with passion for what they do and one who is simply taught?"

Passion is neither learned nor taught, it is inherent, or caught like a disease. One who is infected with a passion will, if properly taught the details of a profession, perform to the highest levels possible. This kind of person is driven from within, and is both blessed and cursed by having that passion.

Blessed because it will propel them to the greatest heights achievable. Cursed because they will have no choice but to pursue that passion, even to the detriment of other parts of their life. But without being taught those details, they are even more cursed, because the passion will go unfulfilled.