If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

- Alfie Kohn

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth …

- Alfie Kohn

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

- Alfie Kohn

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for ga…

- Alfie Kohn

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

- Alfie Kohn

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

- Alfie Kohn

If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But…

- Alfie Kohn

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

- Alfie Kohn

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

- Alfie Kohn