Comments on: Looking forward to hearing John Taylor Gatto http://sociate.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/looking-forward-to-hearing-john-taylor-gatto/ Making the world safe for conversation Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:41:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jerry http://sociate.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/looking-forward-to-hearing-john-taylor-gatto/#comment-130 Jerry Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:50:08 +0000 http://sociate.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-130 Wow, I had put Alfie in my Brain with one book, but didn't realize how much I like his whole oeuvre! Awesome stuff. Thanks, Jon! Wow, I had put Alfie in my Brain with one book, but didn’t realize how much I like his whole oeuvre! Awesome stuff. Thanks, Jon!

]]> By: jonhusband http://sociate.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/looking-forward-to-hearing-john-taylor-gatto/#comment-129 jonhusband Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:37:38 +0000 http://sociate.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-129 You're right, it was a wowser. Explains a fair bit, when considered over the major period of growth of institutional education. Tangentially related, have you by any chance read Alfie Kohn's <a href="http://www.alfiekohn.org/books/pbr.htm" rel="nofollow">"Punished By Rewards - The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes"</a>? You’re right, it was a wowser. Explains a fair bit, when considered over the major period of growth of institutional education.

Tangentially related, have you by any chance read Alfie Kohn’s “Punished By Rewards – The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes”?

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