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Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of eleven books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations.Kohn's criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores."Kohn lives (actually) in the Boston area with his wife and two children, and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.

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Aniehat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Monaten
Over the last couple of generations, the strategies for trying to produce that result may well have changed. Where kids were once routinely subjected to harsh corporal punishment, they may now be sentenced to time-outs or, perhaps, offered rewards when they obey us. But don’t mistake new means for new ends. The goal continues to be control, even if we secure it with more modern methods. This isn’t because we don’t care about our kids.
Aniehat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Monaten
One problem with just trying to get kids to do what we say is that this may conflict with other, more ambitious, goals we have for them.
Aniehat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Monaten
the workshops I conduct for parents, I like to start off by asking, “What are your long-term objectives for your children? What word or phrase comes to mind to describe how you’d like them to turn out, what you want them to be like once they’re grown?”
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