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Alfie Kohn Inspirational Quotes (62)

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If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
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In education, parody is obsolete.
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Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
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If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
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Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.
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There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.
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Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.
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Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.
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Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.
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In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
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Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.
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Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.
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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
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Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.
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To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.
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If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.
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Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.
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The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.
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The race to win turns us all into losers.
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Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
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The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
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When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
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Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
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Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.
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