Jack Steinberger Quotes

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

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.

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

I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive, problem-solving, and experimenting; not passively listening.

I learned from my peers, and I learned from doing projects, and I learned from mentors, but I learned very little from lectures, and I've talked about how little I attended them.

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

When I talk to people about 'KnowMore', it is as an experiment. The biggest thing I'll say there is that we've learned a lot from 'KnowMore'.

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best through stories, some through works of art, some through role play etc. Second of all, we show what it is like really to understand something.

The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

I don't think there's ever a wrong answer as long as people are willing to learn, share. You're never done learning.

Generally, when I am working, I tend to learn from my seniors and juniors.