“In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.” KnowsWayHumansYoungLife IsCultureRolesTeachRecordsTeacherGroupsTeachingBehaviorLateAdultsTraditionSeparationInventionDefinedTiedPrimitiveHabitualHuman SocietyExplicitImplicit Author:Margaret Mead
“There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.” FirstsValuesCultureParentTeacherTraditionProfoundRecognitionRootedFormalNormSchooling Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools
“Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.” JesusDifficultChristCommunityTeacherImpossibleSubjectsJesus ChristTraditionSimplicityOutstandingTraitor Book:Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries Source: Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries
“he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.” TeacherPoliticianTraditionDoctorsPatientVotersPowerlessnessPassivityMusterDumbbells Author:Andrew Saul