“Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.” ThinkingLittlesDifferentPoliticalNumbersClassTeachingStudentsTaughtHugeTransitionPolitical ScienceWorking LifeStudent Life Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.” ThinkingWantDoneBitsRealizingAudienceTeacherTeaching Author:Jamie Oliver
“I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMindLittlesTwoHelpingKidsSchoolThreeHoursTeachingChairsVillageLittle KidAthensNiger Author:Christine Lagarde
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.” IfsThinkingMindKindChildrenIdeasRealSeemsLeftTeachingSpecialTaughtBuiltIndependentImpressionIdiotSuspectsAssociationArtificialComes And GoesReal ThingsEducation SystemSchooledEpistemologyHomeschoolingUnschoolingPedagogySupposition Author:Anne Sullivan Macy