Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.

Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.