teaching

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it's your perspective that counts - your ability to see differently, not just to see a lot.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then _ to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.