Accommodate Quote by Alfie Kohn Download Open image “To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.” — Alfie Kohn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accommodate Curriculum Education reform Force Students
To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something. — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Parents and families know best, and they should be in control of their individual child's education. — Katie Britt Copy Share Image
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers. — Steve Denning Copy Share Image
If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
By letting parents and students decide what is best for them, our education system is working the way it should be - equipping students… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
“Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
“a grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
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… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
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?… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds? — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
In general, if a couple cannot expand their original rules and boundaries to accommodate personal growth, the relationship disintegrates. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what… — John F. Kennedy Jr Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should. — Sting Copy Share Image
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
You have to be open to change. I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
