Some behavioral psychologists defend the practice of punishing employees on the grounds that it helps to clarify management’s expectations of performance and promote goal setting.81 (This is comparabl...
Rewards usually improve performance only at extremely simple—indeed, mindless—tasks, and even then they improve only quantitative performance.
Малко противоположности в образованието са толкова силни и значими, както тази между отправянето на изисквания към учениците и инструктирането им какво могат и не могат да вършат, от една страна, и за...
The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable, says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book The Way We Were? cites a series of similar attack...
If, like Charles Silberman, we think school should prepare people not just to earn a living but to live a life—a creative, humane, and sensitive life,22 then children’s attitudes toward learning are a...
YOU CAN’T ALWAYS JUDGE a book by its cover, but you can sometimes feel justified in discarding one on the basis of its title. Anything called How to Motivate Your Work Force, Making People Productive,...
My wife says [parenting] is a test of your capacity to deal with disorder and unpredictability -- a test you can't study for, and one whose results aren't always reassuring.
Единственият начин да помогнем на учениците да станат почтени и принципни личности, а не хора, които правят каквото им се каже, е да им дадем шанс сами да открият смисъл в нравствеността. Това означав...
Thomas Gordon said it well: Children sometimes know better than parents when they are sleepy or hungry; know better the qualities of their friends, their own aspirations and goals, how their various t...
To examine the claim that rewards are effective at altering behavior, we pose three questions: First, for whom are they effective? Second, for how long are they effective? And third, at what, exactly,...
What matters is not just how motivated someone is but the source and nature of that motivation.13
The failure to adopt other people’s points of view, to take an imaginative leap out of oneself, is one way to account for much of the behavior we find, troublesome, from littering to murder. (Kafka on...
The dominant problem with parenting in our society isn't permissiveness, but the fear of permissiveness. We're so worried about spoiling kids that we often end up over controlling them.
From deep contentment comes the courage to achieve.
Again, the most effective (and least destructive) way to help a child succeed—whether she’s writing or skiing, playing a trumpet or a computer game—is to do everything possible to help her fall in lov...
So if pundits were throwing up their hands even during the Eisenhower era about schools on the decline and students who could barely read and write, the obvious question is this: When exactly was that...
But my point is not just that the psychological theory is inadequate; it is that the practice is unproductive. If we do not address the ultimate cause of a problem, the problem will not get solved. Th...
The more pressing question, of course, is how we can communicate our love after kids keep acting up even when we think they ought to know better. (We’ve certainly told them enough times!) Here it’s co...
Most children seem eager, even desperate, to please those in authority, reluctant to rock the boat even when the boat clearly needs rocking. In a way, an occasional roll-your-eyes story of excess in t...
Contingent on what, though? Some bases for feeling good about oneself may be worse than others. Jennifer Crocker, a psychologist at Ohio State University, and her colleagues have shown that the progno...
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