Educational Theory Quotes

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.