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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

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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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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If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
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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 unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.
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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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If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.
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Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.
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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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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
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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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Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.
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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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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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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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Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
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Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
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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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Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children
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