Confucius Quotes

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.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

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.

You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems.

A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.

We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

Education has to be more than tests and formulas.

I took my teaching responsibilities very seriously... I taught some great courses: Legal history to feminist theory, courses in American mass culture... I love teaching - I mean really love it.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.