The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
Interpretation
Effective teaching involves understanding and addressing the underlying questions of students, even those they may not express directly.
This quote emphasizes that the essence of good teaching lies in the ability of educators to perceive and respond to the deeper inquiries and curiosities of their students. Often, students may struggle to articulate their questions, and it is the teacher's role to interpret their needs and facilitate a learning environment where those questions can be explored and answered effectively.
In practice
In a teacher's conference, this quote can illustrate the importance of intuitive teaching methods.
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.
Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.
It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
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