Youngsters who are empowered as adolescents to take charge of their own futures will make better citizens in the future than did so many of their parents and their grandparents who suffered from being over-schooled, but under-educated in their own generations.

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Emphasis on standards and results: (1) undermines -Alfie Kohn

Emphasis on standards and results: (1) undermines students’ interest in learning, (2) makes failure seem overwhelming, (3) leads students to avoid challenging themselves, (4) reduces the quality of learning, and (5) invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.

Source:

Alfie Kohn

Position:

Writer and Speaker (2003)

Keywords:

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Peter Milanovic

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Emphasis on standards and results: (1) undermines -Alfie Kohn