A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
Interpretation
Effective teaching requires engaging students before delivering content.
This quote emphasizes that to be a successful teacher, one must first capture and maintain the attention of their students, much like an entertainer does with their audience. Only after gaining that attention can the teacher effectively convey their knowledge and insights, highlighting the importance of engagement in the educational process.
In practice
In a speech at an education conference, you could use this quote to emphasize the role of engagement in effective teaching.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.
Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'
The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and theyβll have the chance to become them.
A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
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