Teaching methods Quotes

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

"The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling"

"The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects in the same way"

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future."

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."

"What science is, what it’s not, and how and why it works… is precisely the information that should be delivered to students."