Pedagogy Quotes

“He who is master of the art of questioning is master of the art of teaching.”

“Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. Anything that is trivial is presented in only one way.”

“I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.”

“Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.”

“A curriculum is more for teachers than it is for pupils.”

“The mainspring of the system is emulation and reward, not fear.”

“The art of education is to make the individual's own experience the starting-point of all instruction.”

“Good teaching is one that helps the child to organize his thinking and to go beyond the information given.”

“I don't think you can teach acting. You can only create an environment in which it can grow.”

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

“Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch each other.”

“The environment should act as an aquarium which reflects the ideas, ethics, attitudes and culture of the people who live in it.”

“We need to be more skilled at listening to children, and to ourselves, to be more skilled at seeing what is not immediately visible.”

“Let us not teach our children what to think, but how to think.”

“To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and listening skills is to build upon sand.”

“The business of the master is not so much to teach, as to see that the children teach one another.”

“Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.”