Alfie Kohn

"The real alternative to being Number One is not being Number Two; it is dispensing with rankings altogether"

"Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior."

"Rewards and punishments are not opposites at all; they are two sides of the same coin. And it is a coin that does not buy very much."

"Nothing about the concept of positive interdependence requires that members of the group avoid conflict, and there are good data to suggest that they should not do so."

"The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior."

"Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions"

"Most things that we and the people around us do constantly... have come to seem so natural and inevitable that merely to pose the question, 'Why are we doing this?' can strike us as perplexing – and a…"

"Some people undoubtedly find it convenient to have students arrive having already been stamped PRIME, CHOICE, SELECT, or STANDARD."