Alfie Kohn Quotes
Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
Alfie Kohn
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
Patrick deWitt
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
Walter Payton
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
Sam Simon
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
Fabrizio Moreira
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
Hanya Yanagihara
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
Eduard Buchner
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
Maika Monroe
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
Gale Norton
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
F. Sionil Jose
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
Barbara Cooney
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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
Aristotle
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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
Uri Geller
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
Verite
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Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
Alfie Kohn
