Quotes About Pedagogy

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

Above all, we must be conscious of the primary pedagogical task, namely that we must first make something of ourselves so that a living inner spiritual relationship exists between the teacher and the children.

The first step for any teacher who seeks to increase his or her pedagogical skills regarding the strategies and behaviors of Domain 1 is to identify and focus on specific areas of pedagogical strength and weakness.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

According to the Progressives, education is to be not subject-centered, but child-centered. ("We don't teach history, we teach Johnny.")

I studied secondary education.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go together.

Anyone who believes that it is possible to educate the will without cultivating the insight that enlivens it is succumbing to illusion. Clear-sightedness on this point is a task for present-day pedagogy, but it can come only from a life-filled understanding of the whole human being.

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.

Frequently, parents withhold such communication from the child, not because they are in any way malevolent but because they themselves never experienced such a token of affection in childhood and consequently do not know that such a thing exists. They can learn to communicate meaningfully with their children, but only if those children have the full support of a therapist who has shaken off the influence of poisonous pedagogy and is totally and unreservedly on the children's side.

If the path to experiencing one's feelings is blocked either the prohibitions of poisonous pedagogy or by the needs of the parents, then these feelings will have to be lived out. This can occur either in a destructive form, as in Hitler's case, or in a self-destructive one, as in Christiane F.'s. Or, as in the case of most criminals who end up in prison, this living out can lead to the destruction both of the self and of others.

A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely, pedagogy is curriculum, because what matters is how things are taught, rather than what is taught.

Todas tus medidas pedagógicas han dado en el blanco; no he esquivado ni un solo golpe; tal y como soy, soy el resultado (aparte, claro, de mi constitución y las influencias de la vida) de tu educación y de mi obediencia

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.