Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

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 our schools whole.

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.