I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
My grandmother can never really teach me anything because she skips steps.
Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.