Episode 137: Alfie Kohn on Compliance, Control, and What Schools Reward

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Educator, author, and speaker known for challenging traditional thinking about motivation, rewards, punishment, homework, grading, and the role of power in schools. In this conversation, Alfie Kohn pushes on some of education’s most familiar assumptions: why control often replaces trust, how compliance can diminish curiosity, why democratic classrooms matter, and what it means for educators to serve as a buffer between students and harmful systems. The discussion moves through parenting, classroom decision-making, school leadership, and the tension between doing what is expected and doing what is right for kids.

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