We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.
Interpretation
Education should focus on sparking creativity rather than just delivering information.
Daphne Koller emphasizes the importance of engaging students in a dialogue that fosters creativity, rather than simply bombarding them with information through traditional lecturing methods. This approach suggests that true learning comes from interaction and the nurturing of innovative thoughts, rather than passive absorption of content.
In practice
A teacher may use this quote during a workshop on innovative teaching methods.
Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.
An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
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It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
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