Alfie Kohn Quotes
Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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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.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
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When I go running, I see Mexicans working hard.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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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?
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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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.
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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.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
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The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over
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I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.
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Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
