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Quotes About Dialogue

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
~ Paulo Freire
Teachers learn from their students' discussions
~ Rashi
You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
~ J. D. Salinger
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
~ Marshall McLuhan
We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.
~ Noam Chomsky
Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.
~ Paulo Freire
Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
~ Saint Augustine
Et même le dialogue caustique, jonché de débris de verre sous ta plume, déborde d'humanité et d'émotion dans sa bouche.
~ Amos Oz
I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.
~ Amy Hempel
No one ever asks about the language.
~ Amy Tan
Je suis un être de dialogue ; tout en moi combat et se contredit. Les Mémoires ne sont jamais qu'à demi sincères, si grand que soit le souci de vérité : tout est toujours plus compliqué qu'on ne le dit. Peut-être même approche-t-on de plus près la vérité dans le roman.
~ Andre Gide
I am not sure whether I altogether understand you. You make me curious. I don't much care about talking, but I should like to talk to you.
~ Andre Gide
Il faut de l'esprit pour bien parler, de l'intelligence suffit pour bien écouter.
~ Andre Gide
I let the most antagonistic proposals of my nature gradually come to agreement without violence. Suppressing the dialogue in oneself really amounts to stopping the development of life. Everything leads to harmony. The fiercer and more persistant the discord had been, the broader reconciliations blossoms.
~ Andre Gide
When one talks it's in order to be understood.
~ Andre Gide
Just as photography in the past freed painting from its concern for a certain sort of accuracy, so the phonograph will eventually no doubt rid the novel of the kind of dialogue which is drawn from the life and which realists take so much pride in.
~ Andre Gide
Mi chiamo Davide Griffo e sono mortificato per avere alzato la voce, ma non capivo quello che il suo agente mi andava dicendo. È straniero?». Montalbano preferì sorvolare.
~ Andrea Camilleri
The beauty of a Jewish education is that you learn how to argue.
~ Andrea Dworkin
A large part of our day is spent communicating, so we need to do it well.
~ Andrew Hunt
There's one technique that you must use if you want people to listen to you: listen to them.
~ Andrew Hunt
Prayer is not monologue but dialogue; God's voice in response to mine is its most essential part.
~ Andrew Murray
You can't fit in with people by pretending to be just like they are; you fit in by engaging in a dialogue about your differences, and by putting aside the assumption that your way of life is in any way preferable to theirs.
~ Andrew Solomon
What demands an answer but asks no question? A A telephone.
~ Andy Griffiths