How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
Alfie KohnTo be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.
Alfie KohnIf faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
Alfie KohnWe have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.
Alfie Kohn