Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.
It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
Many people who excel are self-taught.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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