Alfie Kohn Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.

  Alfie Kohn

  Important, May, Outcomes

• The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Book, Numbers

  Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.110, Beacon Press

• Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control.

  Alfie Kohn

  Running, Children, Thinking

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

  Alfie Kohn

  Connections, Students, Thoughtfulness

  Alfie Kohn (2007). “The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing”, p.72, Da Capo Press

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