"If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task."

-- Alfie Kohn

#Children Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.”
“When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.”
“The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.”
“It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.”

Source : François Jacob, Nadine Peyrieras, Michel Morange (2002). “Travaux scientifiques de François Jacob”, p.709, Odile Jacob
“Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.”
“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”
“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.”
“There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.”

You may also like:

Carol S. Dweck
Professor
Daniel H. Pink
Author
Deborah Meier
Education Reform Leader
Diane Ravitch
Historian
John Taylor Gatto
Author
Jonathan Kozol
Writer
Rudolf Dreikurs
Psychologist
Thomas Gordon
Psychologist
William Glasser
Psychiatrist