The Risks of Rewards
Comme le dit Adler : « Les enfants à qui l’on n’a pas appris à relever des défis essaieront d’éviter tous les défis. »
Ichiro Kishimi • Avoir le courage de ne pas être aimé (French Edition)
Some children are taught with super-rigid rules, with punishment unrelated to the deed, or with threats of abandonment or actual abandonment.
Connie Dawson • Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
feeling so far is that standardized testing and performance-based salaries are likely to push education from social norms to market norms. The United States already spends more money per student than any other Western society. Would it be wise to add more money? The same consideration applies to testing: we are already testing very frequently, and ... See more
Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
The interesting result was that, of the boys playing with a toy, 77 percent chose to play with the robot that had been forbidden to them earlier. Freedman’s severe threat, which had been so successful six weeks before, was almost totally unsuccessful when he was no longer able to back it up with punishment.