"John Dewey reminded us that the value of……" — Alfie Kohn
"John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes."
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44 Quotes by Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn has 44 quotes on this site.
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Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
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When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and…
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When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
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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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The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
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You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them.…
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People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a…
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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…
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Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for…
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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…
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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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Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the…
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More Connection Quotes
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
— Martha Beck
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
— John Berger
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
— Rachel Bilson
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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing.…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more…
— Sandra Bullock
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Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one…
— Sandra Bullock
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play…
— Leo Buscaglia
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