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The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with. Grades and gold stars destroy this yearning for learning.

Categories: Education, Psychology, Rewards

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Letter to David Bayless, 6 February 1992.

Learn more on these ideas: Deming Podcast with Dr. Bret Champion, Superintendent of the Leander Independent School District and Encouraging Curiosity in Kids

Categories: education, psychology, rewards

"It would be better if everyone worked together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win."

Please Donate Today!

"We must preserve the power of intrinsic motivation, dignity, cooperation, curiosity, joy in learning, that people are born with."

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