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Alfie Kohn has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
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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…
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When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
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Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
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The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
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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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People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than…
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Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.
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John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not…
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Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
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How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we…
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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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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this…
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
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I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which…
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I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.
— Christina Aguilera
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Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.
— Deborah Bull
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I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.
— Brooke Burke
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I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the…
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I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
— Coco Chanel
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
— Lord Chesterfield
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We…
— Blaise Pascal
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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take…
— Thomas a Kempis
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