In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
Practice makes permanent.
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.
It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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