Alfie Kohn Quotes

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

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Mistake, Feelings

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Children, Learning, Decision

  "The Homework Myth". Book by Alfie Kohn, 2006.

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• No deje que nadie le diga que los exámenes estandarizados no son medidas precisas. La verdad es que ofrecen un método extraordinariamente preciso para calibrar el tamaño de las casas cercanas a la escuela donde se administró la prueba.

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  Educación, Profesor, Escuela

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• El éxito educativo debe medirse por la fuerza de tu deseo de seguir aprendiendo.

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  Strong, Educational, Desire

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• If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

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  Unconditional Love, Enthusiasm, Helping

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

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  Children, Taken, Rights

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.81, ASCD

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• If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

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  Children, Tasks, Problem

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• In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

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  Teacher, Talking, Listening

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• Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

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  Teacher, Classroom, Educator

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Teaching, Taught, Students

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• The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

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  School, Kids, Differences

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

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  Important, May, Outcomes

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• If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.

  Alfie Kohn

  Commitment, Punishment, Shoes

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.

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  Ideas, Long, Giving

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

  Alfie Kohn

  People, Psychology, Rewards

  Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

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  People, Accomplishment, Healthy

  Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.109, Beacon Press

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

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  Stupid, Tests, Said

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• The race to win turns us all into losers.

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  Winning, Race, Loser

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.448, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

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  Mean, Desire, Ends

  Alfie Kohn (2004). “What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies”, p.10, Beacon Press

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• People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

  Alfie Kohn

  People, Community, Workplace

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El castigo y la recompensa proceden básicamente del mismo modelo psicológico, que concibe la motivación como nada más que la manipulación del comportamiento.

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  Motivation, Punishment, Rewards

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Kids, Feelings, Important

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.

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  Teacher, Moving, Kids

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• We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Understanding

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

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  School, Punishment, Two Sides

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