Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

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.

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

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

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