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

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

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.

Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children

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

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.