Edmund Burke Quotes

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.

The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.

I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.