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 you can't listen to people who simply brush that off and say that's necessary with those kids.
All human beings
Flourish.
When
we greet them as human beings when we respond to what they're telling us.
when we reach out to them in whatever way we can, which in some cases can take a lot of time and patience to be sure.
When we
do less talking and more listening.
And when our goal is not mere obedience, but something more ambitious than that.
So m much of my work with teachers
And with parents.
is about that shift from doing to
to working with.
And what's the critical light bulb that takes a while to go off for some people is that rewards and praise are just as much a doing to approach as punishment.
Yeah, but there's no substitute for that.
And in fact
It it's not as if we've got something that while imperfect at least gets the job done faster.
When we use rewards and punishments we're not getting the job done.
What's what's happening there is we're just adding more time because we're killing the intrinsic motivation that we're trying to promote.
So it's not like well, we'll reward them for now to jump start what we're looking for and then when the intrinsic motivation kicks in, then we can fade out the rewards.
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