As I was brushing up on my “Teaching with Love and Logic”, something popped out at me and I wonder what your thoughts were on the subject.
p.s. if you are a teacher I highly recommend taking a look at Jim Fay’s & David Funk’s book “Teaching with Love & Logic”. I give it ✮✮✮✮✮!
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pg. 19 & 20
Great teachers know that you cannot overpower students, but you can get them to behave, or do their assignments, because they want to please their teacher.
A great salesperson said to me once:
“You can’t make people angry and sell them something at the same time.”
“The only people who think you can,” he said, “are highly educated people, like teachers, who think you can get into an adversarial position with students and then sell ’em on the idea of doing what you want.”
Great teachers have discovered that a large part of their success is due to their ability to establish positive relationships with children.
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One of the rules of the psychology of self-concept states:
“Human being will perform for the person they love.”
If a person loves himself, he will do it for himself. If he does not have that high self-esteem or belief in self, he will have to do it for someone else until the time comes that he does love himself.
Kimberly Larson 