Fay Godwin Quotes

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

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

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

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.

While we teach, we learn.

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.

We learn by teaching.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

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.

One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex—in the streets.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it.

Any question you have, most likely someone else is having as well.

I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.