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Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.

Alfie Kohn

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Alfie Kohn
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 15
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Miami Beach
Florida
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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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Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed.
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To feel controlled is to lose interest.
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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
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If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.
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Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
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Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.
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Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
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When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
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Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.
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If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.
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People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
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John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.
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Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.
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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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