Alfie Kohn Quotes

Alfie Kohn is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior. He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research.Kohn's challenges to widely accepted theories and practices have made him a controversial figure, particularly with behaviorists, conservatives, and those who defend the practices he calls into question, such as the use of competition, incentive programs, conventional discipline, standardized testing, grades, homework, and traditional schooling. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. October 1957
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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.”

Published in Education Leadership, September 2005 http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/uncondtchg.htm

“It doesn't matter how motivated students are; what matters is how students are motivated”

"The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation," Chronicle of Higher Education

Alfie Kohn Quotes about people

“Most things that we and the people around us do constantly… have come to seem so natural and inevitable that merely to pose the question, 'Why are we doing this?”

can strike us as perplexing – and also, perhaps, a little unsettling. On general principle, it is a good idea to challenge ourselves in this way about anything we have come to take for granted; the more habitual, the more valuable this line of inquiry.
Punished by Rewards

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