Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

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.

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

In education, parody is obsolete.

If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.