# Alfie Kohn
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alfie kohn (born October 15, 1957) 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.Kohn's challenges to widely accepted theories and practices have made him a controversial figure, particularly with behaviorists, conservatives, and those who defend the practices he calls into question, such as the use of competition, incentive programs, conventional discipline, standardized testing, grades, homework, and traditional schooling.
== Biography ==
Kohn was born in Miami Beach, Florida.
E035 Greg Parker: Opening Doors Beyond High School
Traveling the Road to Better Teaching with Greg Parker, Graduate Student in Counseling and former secondary English teacher, as we talk about a moment helping students plan for learning after high school.
This conversation explores how caring for students beyond the content can open the door to op…
Caution: Contents Under Pressure
September 15, 2026
Caution: Contents Under Pressure
The psychological consequences of pressuring children to perform well academically (and, worse, to outperform their peers) are distressingly obvious. But some adults rationalize their actions by claiming that pressure can be prod…
Predictably Irrational with Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. He co-founded Irrational Capital and has written eight books, including Predictably Irrational and Misbelief, which he wrote after a COVID …
10 Years, 10 Lessons: Everything I Got Wrong About Parenting
Before my daughter was born, I made a book split into two halves. One cover said 'me.' The other said 'you.' I filled the 'you' side with a list of hopes for who she'd become. I had a lot of ideas about the person she should be before I'd ever met her.
This episode marks ten years of the podca…
Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
October 1, 2026
Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
More than a quarter-century after “No Child Left Behind” deliberately left millions of children behind by imposing nationwide punitive high-stakes testing, U.S. students are still tested constantly, starting early in elementa…
Blimie Heller's Story: The Illusion of Control - A Parent’s Dilemma
Parenting educator Blimie Heller joins Chavie to discuss growing up in Toronto, reading parenting books as a child, and how her oldest daughter’s refusal to comply forced her to reconsider what a parent’s role should be. Blimie and Chavie talk about setting limits without relying on punishment, why…
Aggressive Nostalgia
October 15, 2026
Aggressive Nostalgia
“Schools are getting worse and worse; young people today can barely read and write! In the old days, education standards were higher, kids were less self-centered, and people were more moral.” Except…social scientists have shown that none of t…
This is Cohousing | Ep 18 | A Conversation on Cooperation vs. Competition with Alfie Kohn
Cooperation is the secret ingredient of cohousing. Charles Durrett talks with Alfie Kohn, author of "No Contest: The Case Against Competition," to discuss why cooperation beats competition and how cohousing groups can learn to make it their default.In this episode:• Why competition undermines self-…
Learning to Think Like a Scientist
November 1, 2026
Learning to Think Like a Scientist
“The heart of science,” said the educator Sylvia Farnham-Diggory, “is the drive to discover, not the mastery of laboratory procedures and report formalities or the ability to recite facts from textbooks.” Traditional science teac…
TPP 131a: Author and Lecturer Alfie Kohn On Practicing Unconditional Parenting
I was thrilled to have the chance to talk with Alfie Kohn about parenting and differently wired kids and dig into the concepts that many consider highly provocative and controversial because in many ways they are a radical departure from more traditional approaches to parenting, praise, rewards, pu…
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