Alfie Kohn
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385 appearances
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2018
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And I get the same bloody list more or less everywhere I go, every time I ask that question.
Like literally like eighty percent of the items on any list are on every list.
People say, Well, in the long run, I want my child to be happy, to be ethical.
To be successful, to be responsible, caring, compassionate, lifelong learner, creative, curious.
These are the terms that come up over and over again.
And so I then spend the rest of my time with them saying
Typical advice you're getting as parents and teachers at best is irrelevant to those goals.
And at worst is making it less likely that those goals will be reached.
And basically that's what I do for a living, including working with teachers uh in talking about academic education.
What I do with people is say to them, You say you want this, so how come you're doing that?
when that turns out to be conventional mainstream practices that, according to research, undermine the very things you say you want.
Never mind what I want for kids.
You don't help kids to be
caring and and ethical.
by using
Power over them
to focus on behaviors of which you approve.
You don't help
Kids in schools to become better thinkers who get a kick out of playing with ideas by giving them grades.
You do exactly the opposite because grades kill interest in learning.
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