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Alfie Kohn
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 15
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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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Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.
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Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
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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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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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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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Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.
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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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Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
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There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.
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Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
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The race to win turns us all into losers.
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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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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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Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.
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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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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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The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.
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Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.
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