What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone’s being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade.

— Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn Quotes

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

— Alfie Kohn

We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture – precisely when the basics don’t come first.

— Alfie Kohn

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you’ll get that.

— Alfie Kohn

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

— Alfie Kohn

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

— Alfie Kohn

In education, parody is obsolete.

— Alfie Kohn

There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

— Alfie Kohn

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

— Alfie Kohn

Maximum difficulty isn’t the same as optimal difficulty.

— Alfie Kohn

We can’t value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.

— Alfie Kohn

Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

— Alfie Kohn

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

— Alfie Kohn

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

— Alfie Kohn

To feel controlled is to lose interest.

— Alfie Kohn

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose – and fearing that they will make us lose?

— Alfie Kohn

What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone’s being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade.

— Alfie Kohn

The race to win turns us all into losers.

— Alfie Kohn

If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone – employers and employees – from the issues that really matter.

— Alfie Kohn

Those who know they’re valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It’s the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it’s safe to take risks and try new things.

— Alfie Kohn

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do ’resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

— Alfie Kohn
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