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Psychologists suspect that teachers are in fact politicians. Of course, not self-confident enough to go into politics—they move to the schools and there they become presidents, prime ministers, emperors. Small children—and they order them and they force them. Psychologists also suspect that teachers have an inclination toward being sadistic, they w

Osho • Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)

Anyone reading the literature on this subject published 20 years ago would find that the articles look almost identical to those published today.” That assessment, which could have been written this morning, was actually offered in 1975. In nearly forty years, the thinking hasn’t changed.

Alfie Kohn • Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work

. For each person who wins, there are many others who carry with them the feeling of having lost. And the more these awards are publicized through the use of memos, newsletters, and awards banquets, the more detrimental their impact can be.

Alfie Kohn • Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work

Children, in particular, have suffered a grievous decline in just the goods that are most important to them: adult time, energy, and company. The child-rearing work that men and women and an extended family did a hundred years ago, and that women did thirty years ago, has to be done somehow by someone. The scientific moral is not that we need exper

Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn

In short, good values have to be grown from the inside out. Attempts to short-circuit this process by dangling rewards in front of children are at best ineffective, and at worst counterproductive. Children are likely to become enthusiastic, lifelong learners as a result of being provided with an engaging curriculum; a safe, caring community in whic... See more

Alfie Kohn • The Risks of Rewards

Lowering standards just leads to poorly educated students who feel entitled to easy work and lavish praise.

Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

Today's ramped-up parental authority rests on three pillars: science, safety, and achievement. What we ambitious parents know about the human brain tells us that children need to be placed in stimulating and productive environments if they are going to reach their full potential. What we know about the world tells us that it is a dangerous place: t... See more

David Brooks • The Organization Kid

décisif. Dans la vraie vie, travailler en groupe, ça s’appelle coopérer ; à l’école, ça s’appelle tricher. Dans la vraie vie, le travail collectif, c’est sérieux ; à l’école, le travail collectif, ce n’est pas sérieux. Comment s’étonner qu’une humanité nourrie à ces principes soit incapable de coopérer mondialement, aussi bien pour préserver la Ter

Idriss Aberkane • Libérez votre cerveau ! (REPONSES) (French Edition)

One benefit of knowing the science is a kind of protective skepticism. It should make us deeply suspicious of any enterprise that offers a formula for making babies smarter or teaching them more, from flash cards to Mozart tapes to Better Baby Institutes. Everything we know about babies suggests that these artificial interventions are at best usele