Alfie Kohn: Goodness

Alfie Kohn is American author and lecturer. Explore interesting quotes on goodness.

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

The Homework Myth, chap. 10

“Nothing about the concept of positive interdependence requires that members of the group avoid conflict, and there are good data to suggest that they should not do so.”

What to Look For in a Classroom, p. 50

“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.”

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