There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

People 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

We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.

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.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.