Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right tim...e in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, a...nd understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means succes...sively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are all adult learners. Most of us have learned a good deal more out of school than in it. We have learned from our families, o...ur work, our friends. We have learned from problems resolved and tasks achieved but also from mistakes confronted and illusions unmasked. . . . Some of what we have learned is trivial: some has changed our lives forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good... teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »