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.
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.
Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?
Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.
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