Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

To feel controlled is to lose interest.

We 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.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

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.

Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children