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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

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron. — Walter Kohn

My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day. — Walter 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

I'm a woman and a lesbian and a feminist and a Jew and so many other things, and those identities are a source of pride and strength for me. — Sally Kohn

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us. — Sally 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

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation. — Alfie Kohn

There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount. — 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

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes BY ALFIE KOHN — Daniel H. Pink

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. — Walter Kohn

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

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things. — Alfie Kohn

Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around, said the poet Adrienne Rich. — 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

Where did this disposition come from? And what are our long-term goals for people - particularly children - with respect to motivation? — Alfie Kohn

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

When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds? — Alfie Kohn

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards. — Alfie Kohn

To feel controlled is to lose interest. — Alfie Kohn

What matters is not just how motivated someone is but the source and nature of that motivation.13 — Alfie Kohn

By contrast, training and goal-setting programs had a far greater impact on productivity than did anything involving payment.32 — Alfie Kohn

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason — 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

All rewards have the same effect," one writer declares. "They dilute the pure joy that comes from success itself. — Alfie Kohn

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that. — Alfie Kohn

Few parents have the courage and independence to care more for their children's happiness than for their success. — Alfie Kohn

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior. — Alfie Kohn

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students. — Alfie Kohn

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. — Alfie Kohn

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes. — Alfie Kohn

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much. — 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

Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty. — Alfie Kohn

rain rots what is kept wrapped up, but not what is uncovered. — Sherab Chodzin Kohn

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

Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists, — Sally Kohn

Control is an unavoidable feature of human relationships; all that actually varies is the subtlety of the system of reinforcement. — Alfie Kohn

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum. — 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

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

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself. — Alfie Kohn

We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning. — Alfie Kohn

The overwhelming number of teachers ... are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do. — Alfie Kohn

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

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning. — Alfie Kohn

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test. — Alfie Kohn

Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold! — Sally Kohn

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. — Walter Kohn

In education, parody is obsolete. — Alfie Kohn

Sometimes the alternative to black and white isn't gray; it's, say, orange. — 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