"Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions."

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Source : "The Homework Myth". Book by Alfie Kohn, 2006.

Alfie Kohn

#Children Quotes #Learning Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.”
“Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.”
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”
“For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“Flesh is weak, but love is strong.”

Source : Song: Between The Devil And Me, Album: Everything I Love, 1996
“Don't live in the past - you've already been there. And don't live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now - it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed.”
“Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.”
“I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.”

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