If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.

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.

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.