Can We Justify Using Rewards?
January 29, 2020
This is what long summer evenings are all about. A lovely summer salad for dinner, followed by some games and eventually relaxing on a couch enjoying conversation with friends. As can often be the case for conversations involving me, the topics of discussion tended towards p...
The Difference Between ‘More Freedom’ And Freedom
October 26, 2019
Motivation, it’s what we need in all our learning and development as human beings. But how are humans motivated? What drives them? This is the topic of Daniel H. Pink’s book ‘Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.’ This insightful book looks into the re...
Are Your Children Lazy?
April 16, 2019
By Justus Frank“He could have done it, but he’s just lazy.”
How many times have we heard that type of phrase and how many times have we used it ourselves? I know that as a teacher I would regularly label certain children as lazy, sometimes just privately in my head, bu...
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