Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.

Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.

Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person.

Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.