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.
My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.
I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!
Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat at school for free and that the cafeteria would become part of the school's curriculum.
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
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