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.
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.
The quality of your public education shouldn't be defined by your zip code.
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
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