To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when learning takes place. Most fundamentally, teaching in this conception is creating those conditions in which most--if not all--of our students will realize their potential to learn. That sounds like hard work, and it is a little scary because we don't have complete control over who we are, but it is highly rewarding and obtainable. Ken Bain
Love, too, has to be learned.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Michel De Montaigne
But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.
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Sarah Dessen
One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.
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Richelle E. Goodrich
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Voltaire
More Quotes By Ken Bain
The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.
In short, we much struggle with the meaning of learning within our discipline and how best to cultivate and recognize it. For that task, we don't need routine experts who know all the right procedures but adaptive ones who can apply fundamental principles to all...
To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when learning takes place. Most fundamentally, teaching in this conception is creating those conditions in which most--if not all--of our students will realize their...
Simply put, the best teachers believe that learning involves both personal and intellectual development and that neither the ability to think nor the qualities of being a mature human are immutable. People can change, and those changes--not just the accumulation of information--represent true learning.
