Alfie Kohn Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Mistake, Feelings

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

  Alfie Kohn

  People, Accomplishment, Healthy

  Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.109, Beacon Press

• Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

  Alfie Kohn

  Play, Risk, Trying

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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