Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

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.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

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

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.