Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies - as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' - can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.