Acknowledging that students have competing purposes is the first step to managing them. - David Franklin

It turns out that you only need 23 people for it to be more likely to find a shared birthday than not.

On the whiteboard in Dan’s office, he has written in bold black marker the phrase ‘TEACHING ≠ LEARNING’. He believes that most lecturers pay too much attention to what they are doing in a class. Planning is important, and professors are right to spend time in advance thinking about how the class will be structured. One downside, though, is that professors will often evaluate themselves against what they said they would do in the plan. If they covered the material without tripping up, and gave the right explanations at the right time, they will be happy about how the class went.

Einstein is supposed to have remarked that “education is what remains when one has forgotten everything they learned at school”.