43 Quotes About Pedagogy

The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...

If your students don't listen to you, listen to them.

To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.

This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is seen as liberty--even if the poverty of those in nearby cities robs them of all meaningful autonomy by narrowing their choices to the meanest and the shabbiest of options. In this way, defendants in these cases seem to polarize two of the principles that lie close to the origins of this republic. Liberty and equity are seen as antibodies to each other.

Jak skvělí jsme bývali pedagogové, když jsme se o pedagogiku pranic nestarali!

It seems to me that the binary opposition that is so much embedded in Western thought and language makes it nearly impossible to project a complex response.

But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this technology is often presented as supporting student "engagement.