Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.
Alfie KohnIt's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies - as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' - can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.
Alfie KohnPeople 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
Alfie KohnEducators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; itโs what the learner learns.
Alfie Kohn