Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
Interpretation
Active learning enhances the effectiveness of the educational process.
This quote by Kurt Lewin emphasizes the idea that engagement in the learning process leads to better retention and understanding of material compared to a passive approach, such as simply listening or reading without interaction. Active learning involves participants in the process, allowing them to experiment, discuss, and apply concepts in a hands-on manner, which ultimately fosters deeper comprehension and critical thinking skills.
In practice
In a classroom, the teacher can encourage students to participate in discussions rather than just lecturing for hours.
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.
Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks.
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
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