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• When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you…
• When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
• The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
• Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
• Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her…
• Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
• Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
• You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't…

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