"People will typically be more enthusiastic where they……" — Alfie Kohn
"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"
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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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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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John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater…
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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 Belonging Quotes
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
— Teresa of Avila
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
— Annie Besant
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little…
— James Caan
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a…
— Nicolas Cage
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
— Samuel Alexander
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
— Maya Angelou
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Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful…
— Patricia Churchland
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
— John O'Donohue
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself…
— Ernst Haeckel
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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