"To feel controlled is to lose interest." — Alfie Kohn
"To feel controlled is to lose interest."
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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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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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More Controlled Quotes
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one of 666 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and…
— Jello Biafra
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
— Conrad Black
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders…
— Conrad Black
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
— Manolo Blahnik
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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all…
— Alvin Ailey
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision…
— Dan Brown
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun!…
— Carol Burnett
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than…
— Margaret Cho
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
— Jackie Chan
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