To feel controlled is to lose interest.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

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

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

In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.