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...Alfie Kohn, an educator in Cambridge, Mass., who writes and speaks on behavioral issues, is perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades, test scores and class rankings. All this, argues the author of the influential 1993 book Punished by Rewards and a new book, What to Look for in a Classroom, kills off the love of learning and replaces it with superficial, grade-grubbing behavior. Kohn is appalled by parents who try to motivate their kids by paying for good grades: "You can almost watch the interest in learning evaporate before your eyes...
...Kohn's advice to parents: Stop asking your kids how they did in school today, and ask instead about what they did. "If you have five minutes, talk with your kids for five minutes about what unexpected ideas she came across, or how he feels when he figures something out. Help the child forget about grades, so learning has a chance...
Others have not been so quick to join Batista's backers. "It's a good idea," says Dr. Lawrence Kohn, a cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, "but we're waiting to see the scientific proof." And lack of proof has certainly been a problem. Because many of Batista's patients do not have phones and come from all areas of Brazil, he has done little to track the long-term effects of his procedure. Surgeons in Brazil were no more eager than most American doctors to accept Batista's claims. "When I first heard...
...Kohn is a member of the "Spartakist" Workers Party, a socialist organization which adheres to the doctrines of Lenin and Trotsky...
...Kohn blames the recent resurgence of fascism in Germany on capitalist reforms enacted after reunification...