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

Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

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

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

To feel controlled is to lose interest.