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In education, parody is obsolete.

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Alfie Kohn
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 15
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Teacher
Writer
Miami Beach
Florida
Parody
Obsolete
Education

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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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Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.
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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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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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Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.
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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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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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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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A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.
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How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
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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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Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.
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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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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
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Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
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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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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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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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Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.
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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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