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You are a pawn and a tool," he said. "But you're the right one for the job. For that, I am sorry.
— Jamie Wyman
Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.
— Alfie Kohn
The research suggests that praise may have [a negative, unintended] effect, directing attention away from the task [at hand] and toward your reaction.
— Alfie Kohn
We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.
— Alfie Kohn
Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.
— Alfie Kohn
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
— Alfie Kohn
If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
— Alfie Kohn
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it's what the learner learns.
— Alfie Kohn
How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.
— Alfie Kohn
Rewards usually improve performance only at extremely simple - indeed, mindless - tasks, and even then they improve only quantitative performance.
— Alfie Kohn
To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.
— Alfie Kohn
I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
— Alfie Allen
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes BY ALFIE KOHN
— Daniel H. Pink
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.
— Alfie Kohn
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.
— Alfie Kohn
I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.
— Gwendoline Christie
Where did this disposition come from? And what are our long-term goals for people - particularly children - with respect to motivation?
— Alfie Kohn
What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.
— Alfie Allen
The race to win turns us all into losers.
— Alfie Kohn
Children don't just need to be loved; they need to know that nothing they do will change the fact that they're loved.
— Alfie Kohn
By contrast, training and goal-setting programs had a far greater impact on productivity than did anything involving payment.32
— Alfie Kohn
What's it all about Alfie, is it just the moment we live?
— Dionne Warwick
I've always known my dad is a one-off and his own person. But I feel that underneath he has always loved me.
— Alfie Allen
All rewards have the same effect," one writer declares. "They dilute the pure joy that comes from success itself.
— Alfie Kohn
Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.
— Alfie Kohn
I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.
— Cheryl Cole
When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
— Alfie Kohn
I haven't had a lot of 'Games Of Thrones' groupies. The fans seem to be really nice. They don't seem that invasive.
— Alfie Allen
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
— Alfie Kohn
Few parents have the courage and independence to care more for their children's happiness than for their success.
— Alfie Kohn
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.
— Alfie Kohn
You can't go on running forever ... " "And you can't go on ... " Alfie desperately searched for the right word, " ... mopedding* forever!
— David Walliams
Although I have fantastic connections, I didn't know as a child what feeling secure meant.
— Alfie Allen
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
— Alfie Kohn
We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.
— Alfie Kohn
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
— Alfie Allen
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
— Alfie Kohn
The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.
— Alfie Kohn
If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.
— Alfie Kohn
For the anthropomorphic view of the rat, American psychology substituted a rattomorphic view of man. - Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation
— Alfie Kohn
Control is an unavoidable feature of human relationships; all that actually varies is the subtlety of the system of reinforcement.
— Alfie Kohn
If a child is off-task ... mayb e the problem is not the child ... maybe it's the task.
— Alfie Kohn
Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
— Alfie Kohn
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
— Alfie Kohn
When unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are always present, "Good job!" isn't necessary; when they're absent, "Good job!" won't help.
— Alfie Kohn
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
— Alfie Kohn
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
— Michael Caine
I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.
— Alfie Allen
The overwhelming number of teachers ... are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
— Alfie Kohn
I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.
— Georgia May Jagger
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
— Alfie Allen
Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.
— Alfie Allen
Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.
— Alfie Kohn
In education, parody is obsolete.
— Alfie Kohn
The point isn't just whether children know what to expect; it's whether what they've come to expect makes sense.
— Alfie Kohn
Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.
— Alfie Kohn
What matters is not just how motivated someone is but the source and nature of that motivation.13
— Alfie Kohn
To feel controlled is to lose interest.
— Alfie Kohn