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E.R. Braithwaite

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

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Siva Vaidhyanathan

Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an “educator,” because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

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Only a self-learnt man can teach others

education, learning, teaching

Only a self-taught man can teach others

education, learning, teaching

Education isn’t what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes…The power to learn is present in everyone’s soul and…the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body… Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively be made to do it. it isn’t the craft of putting sight into the soul. Education take for granted that sight is there but that it isn’t turned the right way or looking where it ought to look, and it tries to redirect it appropriately.

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Eleanor Duckworth

But it’s not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It’s, on the contrary, the child’s own struggle to make sense of the data

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Eleanor Duckworth

Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn’t a simple job. It’s confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

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Donovan L. Graham

the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)

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Herman L Glaess

Learning means change and change is usually difficult.

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Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

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Winston S. Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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Nikos Kazantzakis

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

education, learning, teaching