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 ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.
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
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…
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…
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.
If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have … - Deborah Meier
If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have …
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…
It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up. - Deborah Meier
It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.
Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. - Deborah Meier
Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.
Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling. - Deborah Meier
Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.
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