Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division.
The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so. - Deborah Meier
The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
- Deborah Meier
There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's… - Deborah Meier
There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's…
Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to peo… - Deborah Meier
Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to peo…
I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality… - Deborah Meier
I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality…
Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids. - Deborah Meier
Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.
Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling. - Deborah Meier
Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.
We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people rem… - Deborah Meier
We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people rem…
Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segr… - Deborah Meier
Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segr…
A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing. - Deborah Meier
A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.
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