Constructivist Teaching Quotes

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

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.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

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.

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

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

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

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.

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

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.