“Mi padre suele decir que los mejoeres maestros no siempre son los que usan pizarra”
“Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
“There is no path, no man or no book in the world that can teach you nothing! The point is, what will they teach you?”
“When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
“I m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.”
“Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. ”
“Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.”
“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men s [children s] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
“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.”
“I m more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.”
“A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child s mind, he does not understand teaching.”
“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.”
“Evil prevails when good people do nothing.”