Rewards and punishments are not opposites at all; they are two sides of the same coin. And it is a coin that does not buy very much. - Alfie Kohn

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Rewards and punishments are not opposites at all; they are two sides of the same coin. And it is a coin that does not buy very much.

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About Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn (born October 15, 1957) is an American lecturer and author in the fields of education, psychology and parenting. He is an outspoken critic of American public education, particularly the trend toward pervasive standardized testing, and has written several books attacking "common sense" notions about competition, rewards, and parenting.

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Most things that we and the people around us do constantly... have come to seem so natural and inevitable that merely to pose the question, 'Why are we doing this?' can strike us as perplexing – and also, perhaps, a little unsettling. On general principle, it is a good idea to challenge ourselves in this way about anything we have come to take for granted; the more habitual, the more valuable this line of inquiry.

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