The Risks of Rewards
John Condry, was more succinct: rewards, he said, are the “enemies of exploration.”
Alfie Kohn • Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
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Threatening people with punishment or encouraging them with reward is not going to be much better when trying to motivate people to change. The most potent form of motivation is intrinsic motivation, which comes from within the individual and is fostered when that person can feel autonomous, competent and related to others.
Emma Weber • Turning Learning into Action: A Proven Methodology for Effective Transfer of Learning
why learning is so damn boring to so many people. It’s almost certainly because the method of transmission is wrong. We praise good teachers by saying that they “make learning fun.” Games are very good teachers...of something. The question is, what do they teach?
Raph Koster • Theory of Fun for Game Design
Adler was very critical of education by reward and punishment. It leads to mistaken lifestyles in