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The Brian Lehrer Show / July 06, 2004 / Bush, Interrupted

Bush, Interrupted

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Eddie Holt Lecturer in the School of Communications at DCU and a Columnist for The Irish Times on the President's anger over an interview on Irish Television


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  • [1] Ada Silverstein from Chelsea, Manhattan June 19, 2007 - 12:19PM

    Dear Brian:

    No one seems to realize that this student pay has been tried before, in the 1820's and in the 1960's and 1970's. In both cases they failed and were discontinued. Diane Ravitch has written about this.

    Lepper & Greene wrote a book on "The Hidden Costs of Reward" in which he cites studies which show that, actually, rewards are counterproductive to most learning goals, from kindergarten to college. The rewards seem to counteract other motivations for most school tasks--the only exception being rote tasks.

    In my opinion, good teachers don't need to use money to get kids to learn, and bad teachers can't get kids to learn even if they pay them.

    I have taught from the level of Headstart through college level, and I am sure that this silly behaviorist gambit will also fail, but only after much time and money have been wasted. Those who are ignorant of history are condemned to repeat it.

    Dr. Ada Kelley Silverstein

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