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When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds?

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Alfie Kohn
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 15
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Miami Beach
Florida
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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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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
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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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To feel controlled is to lose interest.
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You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.
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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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Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up they should have the chance to live in one today.
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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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The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
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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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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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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
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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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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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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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Learning is something students do, NOT something done to 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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To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.
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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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