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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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Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.
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To feel controlled is to lose interest.
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Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
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We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.
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Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.
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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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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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What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade
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Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.
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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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Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches it’s what the learner learns.
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Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.
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Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.
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Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.
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We can't value only what is easy to measure measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.
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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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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
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