For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: teaching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. —Haim Ginott More about this quote Tags: learning teaching impossible tools support Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. —William Blake More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge teaching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would agree that learning is a natural act if we are talking about the kind of learning that happens in a healthy relationship between a mother and her baby or between two people getting to know each other. But schooling is not a natural act. Quite the contrary: The institution of School, with its daily lesson plans, fixed curriculum, standardized tests, and other such paraphernalia tends constantly to reduce learning to a series of technical acts and the teacher to the role of a technician. Of course, it never fully succeeds, for teachers resist the role of technician and bring warm, natural human relationships into their classrooms. But what is important for thinking about the potential for megachange is that this situation places the teacher in a state of tension between two poles: School tries to make the teacher into a technician; in most cases a sense of self resists, though in many the teacher will have internalized School's concept of teaching. Each teacher is therefore somewhere along the continuum between technician and what I dare call a true teacher. —Seymour Papert in The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer More about this quote Tags: relationships education learning teaching schooling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. —Jim Henson in It's Not Easy Being Green More about this quote Tags: learning identity teaching examplar Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email