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

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

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.

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

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

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.

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