6 Quotes Tagged: pedagogy

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

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

our pedagogical hubris: that is, “our belief that man can do what God cannot, namely, manipulate others for their own salvation.

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.