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Recently, Alfie Kohn tweeted an older arti­cle of his, “Stu­dents Don’t ‘Work’ — They Learn.” Sounded inter­est­ing, so I went and read it. Kohn’s main point is that work-related lan­guage  encour­ages think­ing about edu­ca­tion in ways that are detri­men­tal to stu­dent learn­ing. This work-related lan­guage per­vades edu­ca­tion dis­course — “home­work,” “seat work,” “get to work,” “class­room …