It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
Interpretation
Teaching requires more than just authority; it involves guiding and engaging students in learning.
This quote by John Locke highlights the difference between mere authority and effective teaching. While a tutor may be able to give orders and demand attention, true education comes from the ability to inspire and connect with students, fostering a deeper understanding of the material rather than simply enforcing compliance.
In practice
During a teacher training workshop, to emphasize the importance of engaging students.
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.
I write for young girls of color, for girls who donβt even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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