“Now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I’ve learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That’s as far as I’ve gotten I’m afraid.”
“The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.”
“The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.”
“If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.”
“She took a deep breath. Let me begin again. If this girl wanted to play ball in front of her department head, Christine would bring it. She closed her eyes and accessed the most expensive Philo Department vocabulary words she possessed. Well, as human beings, when we immanentize the eschaton…”
“වේවැල පාසලකට අත්යවශ්යම දෙයක් නොවේ. ඒ නැතිව පාසලක් පාලනය කළ හැකිය. පාසල් බිමේ කොතැනක යතත් වේවැල රැගෙන යන විදුහල්පතිවරු වෙති. ඔවුන් සුදුසු වන්නේ හරකුන් රකින්නට විනා ළමයින් රකින්නට නොවේ.”
“Sigue dedicándose a la enseñanza [...] porque así aprende la virtud de la humildad, porque así comprende con toda claridad cuál es su lugar en el mundo. No se le escapa la ironía, a saber, que el que va a enseñar aprende la lección más profunda, mientras que quienes van a aprender no aprenden nada.”
“The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and elaborate encoding.”
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“We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.”
“You mean you live down here? Matilda asked. I do , Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.”
“Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn t afraid to say we don t know. For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn t have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.”
“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”
“One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.”
“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.”
“I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.”
“Mengajar adalah semacam pertunjukan yang harus menarik.”