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.

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

To feel controlled is to lose interest.

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.

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

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.