Eight quotes about teaching
The ice-breaking exercise started a day with lots of inspiring discussions. The two quotes that sparked my interest were:
“Teachers, like their students, have to learn to love the questions, as they come to realize that there can be no final agreements or answers”
Greene, M. (1988) The dialectic of freedom. Teachers College Press: London.
“If students’ initial ideas and beliefs are ignored, the understandings that they develop can be very different from what the teacher intends”
Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., Cocking R. R. (eds.) (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and SchoI. The National Academies Press: Washington, DC.
I think they both encourage asking more questions when working with students to get to know them and initiate discussions. This would allow for peer-to-peer learning and recognition of the students’ needs – very beneficial to the students and myself as a teacher. I will keep this in mind when designing and delivering the next teaching session.
Additionally, I think that the first quote is especially relevant and important to the art and design studies.