Quotes by Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Player

Simple

Team

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

Children

Decision

Learning

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

Children

Rights

Taken

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Education

Intelligence

People

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

Evaluation

Grades

Rating

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

Pleasure

Students

Tasks

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?

Energy

Spending

Trying

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.

Feelings

Important

Kids

If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

Children

Feelings

Mistake

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

Faculty

Might

Relax

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Book

Caring

Children

Connections

Cutting

Decision

Democracy

Desire

Differences

Doe

Education

Ends

Energy

Enthusiasm

Essence

Evaluation

Excellence

Faculty

Feelings

Feels

Frustration

Goal

Grades

Growing Up

Helpful

Helping

Horror

Important

Inspirational

Intelligence

Interest

Issues

Kids

Knowing

Last Time

Lasts

Learning

Listening

Long

Mean

Might

Mistake

Motivation

Needs

Numbers

Obsolete

Outcomes

Parody

Pay

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Quotes by Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

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?

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.

If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

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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