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

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Non-cooperative approaches, by contrast, almost always involve duplication of effort, since someone working independently must spend time and skills on problems that already have been encountered and overcome by someone else. A technical hitch, for example, is more likely to be solved quickly and imaginatively if scientists (including scientists from different countries) pool their talents rather than compete against one another.

You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

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