Pedagogical Practices Quotes

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in introducing innovative teaching methods.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

When you empower and teach a teacher how to break down barriers, bring innovation and excitement to the classroom, every student in that classroom learns.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

The psychology of education is all about how the society gets benefited from it.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.