Quotes on Teaching

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand.

Confucius

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Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Confucius, Lunyu 2.11

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler, Rethinking the Future

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We cannot afford to educate students in a system where they loose what they desperately need for their future: passion, self-responsibility, and motivation to shape the world together.

Gerald Hüther

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If you ask students why they read the textbook, they say it’s to help them understand the lectures. It should be the other way around: students should be coming to class in order to get help understanding the reading!

Eric Mazur

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The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.

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