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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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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
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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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Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
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We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.
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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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If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
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Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
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To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.
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How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?
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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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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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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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Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.
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The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
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There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.
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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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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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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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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
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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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