Multifaceted Tadao Okada - 教育についての言葉
Educational Quotes
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." Thomas Carruthers
"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education." Chuang-Tzu
"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism." Louis A. Berman
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education." Smiley Blanton
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." Derek Curtis Bok
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." Alec Bourne
"A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130." Ernest Leroy Boyer
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." Buddha
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." Aristotle
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." Aristotle
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." Clay P. Bedford
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts." Henry Brooks Adams
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams
"To know how to suggest is the art of teaching." Henri-Frテゥdテゥric Amiel
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." Paul Anderson
Teaching as Telling
"By giving up on the notion that teaching at heart consists of Telling, we can begin to envisage other forms of teaching. the minute we let go of the axiom that teaching equals Telling, it is not hard to imagine alternatives." p.5
"One scholar (LIon Gardiner) summarizes some of this research as follows: ...research clearly favors discussion over the lecture as an instructional method when the variables studied are retention of information after a course is over, transfer of knowledge to novel situations, development of skill in thinking or problem solving, or achievement in affective domains, such as motivation for additional learning or change in attitudes--in other words, the kinds of learning we care most about." p. 3
From book: Teaching With Your Mouth Shut by Donald L. Finkel, Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1999, Portsmouth, NH.
Not knowing
"Learning is now lifelong, and ignorance and uncertainty are OK. Learning is about knowing how to find out what you don't know. (See Pencheon's full list of contrasts on the BMJ's website.) These new attitudes need to be shared with patients. Patients may take time to celebrate ignorance in their doctors, but pretending to know when you don't is rapidly becoming old fashioned."
From: article entitled, "I don't know": the three most important words in education. BMJ 1999, 318 (8, May) on-line at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7193/0
Readiness to learn
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." (source not known)
Spoonfeeding
"Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." __E.M. Foster
A teacher who missed something about a student
Yor're aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it? And not that many years later he's teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever heard? (pauses to light cigarette) No aptitude at all for long division, but never mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose it's like the man says, "It's not what you know ...." (Karl Arbeiter: former teacher of Albert Einstein)
Thinking
"What did you do in school today, believe or think?" __Ralph Nader quoting his father's daily question to as a child
Instructional Effectiveness
"Instruction is effective to the degree that it succeeds in changing students in desired direction sand not in undesired directons." __Robert Mager, author of Preparing Instructional Objectives.
Impact of Teachers
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influences stop." __Henry Adams, Historian
Futurist View on Learning
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." __Alvin Tofler
A Paradigm Shift
Good teachers are best when students barely know they exist,
Not so good when students always obey and acclaim them,
Worst when students despise them,
Of good teachers, when their work is done and their aims fulfilled,
The student will say, "I did this myself." __ Lao-Tzu
Vision
"A good coach will make players see what they can be rather than what they are."
__Ara Parasheghian
Memory Based Learning
"One of the cheif defects in our plan of education in this country is that we give too much attention to developing the memory and too little to developing the mind." __W.J. Mayo, 1933
"Real" Learning
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." __ B.F. Skinner
Being Up-to-Date
"Our schools are OK if it were 1965." Stoll and Fink
On Learning Theory
"The overwhelming number of teachers...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do." Alfie Kohn
Innovation and Teacher Attitudes
"There can be no significant innovation in education that does not have at its center the attitudes of the teachers. The beliefs, assumptions, feelings of teachers are the air of the learning environment; they determine the quality of life within it." Postman and Weingartner
Relationships
"The guts of teaching is simple - it is the relationship between a teacher and a group of kids." Howard Wilson
Ready to Learn
"I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like to be taught." W. Churchill
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