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One Quotes by 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.
- Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.
- Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow…
- 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 to…
- Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.
- 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 atmosphere…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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