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.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.
For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.
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