The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Interpretation
Teachers enhance their knowledge and effectiveness when they embrace learning themselves.
This quote by Bertolt Brecht emphasizes the importance of continuous learning, not just for students but also for teachers. It suggests that the educational landscape improves significantly when educators recognize the value of being open to new ideas, perspectives, and experiences, fostering a culture of knowledge exchange and growth in the classroom.
In practice
A teacher reflecting on their teaching methods at a conference.
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.
When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.
Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
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