Believer Quote by Alfie Kohn

“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

“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

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

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

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

— Alfie Kohn

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

— Alfie Kohn

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

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

— Alfie Kohn

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

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

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

— Alfie Kohn

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an…

— Alfie Kohn