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Emphasis Quote by Alfie Kohn

“If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might…” quote by Alfie Kohn — Download Open image

“If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.”

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“Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired…

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“a grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to…

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In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have…

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Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to…

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

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Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from…

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What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer?…

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

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Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

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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…

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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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Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived…

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All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

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My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

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The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only…

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The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.

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