Alfie Kohn
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Alfie Kohn
@alfiekohn.bsky.social

author and lecturer on topics in education, parenting, and human behavior....
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Alfie Kohn is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior. He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research. .. more

Education 68%
Psychology 10%
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"Podcast" comes from the Latin "paudus" (meaning "to half-listen to") and "casteratum" (meaning "while preparing food"). Mine is called "KOHN'S ZONE: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Education & Kids." New episodes are posted on the 1st & 15th of each month: www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/

Same for teachers' lesson plans and assignments extruded by a chatbot?
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Oh, swell. Next you're going to be keeping us awake wondering if bay leaves really add anything to our soups and sauces - a long-term propaganda campaign by Big Leaf.

"Worst of the worst" is, however, an apt description of the men responsible for terrorizing and abducting them.
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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MAGA GOP as a three-legged stool: "the nativist extremism of Stephen Miller...the anti-government extremism of Russell Vought, and...the open, flamboyant corruption of Trump that degrades a people's faith in gov't and makes it easier to remake the state in the image of a single man": is.gd/VRlGql
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[Louis XIV 1655]

More to the point: "So you're saying that anything Trump orders is legal just because *he* ordered it?"
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

This is how I imagine today's NY Times would have covered Kristillnacht
Leavitt on Trump's boat strikes: "You can expect to see those strikes continue"

Afterthought: How many other authors have at some point been tempted to write a follow-up book with that title?

And how many others *should* have written such a book?

Gleaned from an unusually entertaining obit:

1979: Mrs. Terry Martin Hekker publishes an antifeminist book: "Ever Since Adam & Eve: The Satisfactions of Housewifery & Motherhood in the Age of Do-Your-Own-Thing."

1996: Her husband leaves her for a younger woman.

2009: She publishes a second book:

yes, but they're *magic* soybeans

Exactly. Next they'll probably get a woman to play the lead in a biopic of the novelist George Eliot

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Now they are casting a Black Othello just to be PC, wokeness is ruining entertainment

deadline.com/2025/11/broc...
Barbara Broccoli’s First Post-James Bond Feature ‘Othello’ To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
Barbara Broccoli's First Post-James Bond Feature 'Othello' To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
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ICYMI: The Fundamental Attribution Error says we overstate the impact of indiv characteristics (talent, effort, beliefs) & minimize how social context shapes what we do & who we are. So what does that mean for education? Listen to "It's Not About You," the latest episode of Kohn's Zone: is.gd/JiaK2w
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Ah, I see where the confusion lies. Mamdani is "antisemitic" in the other usage of the word - viz., "critical of Israel's policy of bombing hospitals and schools"

Credibility restored.

This may be more developmental than political. To reach middle age is to realize that Kafka was a realist.

I don't want to say he's a control freak, but he appeared on a subreddit for a session called "Ask Me One of These Two Things."

Even Northern freakin' Ireland is moving away from religious indoctrination in public schools, finally acknowledging that democracy requires a wall between church and state - while in the U.S., the MAGA GOP blithely tries to drag us backward: tinyurl.com/2jfdwh9j
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"Ask your doctor if Zohranos might be right for you"

tl;dr
With Miller, Vought, and the other henchmen, it's ideological.
With Trump, it's psychiatric.
the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to.

Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller

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the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to.

Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller

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Just a reminder, “Epstein” is the name of the sex trafficker.

The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”

Re triumphant proclamations that Trump's approval numbers are now in the high 30s:
1) So almost 2 of every 5 Americans are STILL cheering him on? Horrifying.
2) As Jason Stanley notes, his "regime has decided it has enough of the levers of power that they don’t need to have public support anymore."

I was happy to add my name to this campaign by the group Fairplay (formerly Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood) that offers parents five reasons to stay away from AI toys: fairplayforkids.org/pf/aitoyadvi....
Feel free to spread it around.
AI Toys Advisory - Fairplay
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Damon focused on the panel discussion with Serious People (including Secretary of State George Shultz) that followed the movie. "They all said we were building nuclear bombs so they wouldn't be used. That is so stupid!"

Freudian slip. Trump and his sycophants believe that any orders he issues are lawful just because he issues them.
REPORTER: “Trump accused the other side of encouraging political violence. Isn't that what he is doing?”

LEAVITT: “Why aren't you talking about what members of congress are doing telling the military not to follow lawful orders?”

REPORTER: “Actually, they said ILLEGAL orders.”