Alfie Kohn
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2018
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Uh yes, that's right.
And that may help to explain why a truly manipulative approach, really like we're training pets, has come to be accepted by mainstream
um advisors where kids are concerned
uh who are atypical as as you put it.
Stuff that we
in many cases would never dream of doing to neurotypical kids i has come to be the standard recommendation.
for kids with with autism and learning disabilities and and all sorts of things.
You know, my my late friend Herb Lovitt, who I think is one of my mentors when it comes to kids with special needs.
Uh he wrote wrote two remarkable books.
I highly recommend.
One's called Cognitive Counseling in Persons with Special Needs and the other's called Simply Learning to Listen.
And Herb Lovid used to say the only two problems with special education in this country is that it's not special and it sure as hell isn't education.
Because the point is not to listen to and respond to what kids are telling us in different ways, not always verbally.
The point is
to coerce them.
into looking as normal as possible and meeting our expectations even if those make them very unhappy.
And so
w we have to keep w whenever somebody says if I can't bribe or threaten kids to get them to do what I want, well I hope you give me lots of practical suggestions for what I can do.
And of course I want to take a step back and ask what you can do in order to reach what goal.
Because you know, in the United States over the last, I don't know, half century there has been a move away from some of the
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