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Quotes About Pedagogy

Aggressive questions are usually pedagogic - that is, the answer has already been written in the mind of the questioner, who then waits with a reply. It's pretend listening.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Today small boys and young men are daily inundated with a poisonous pedagogy that supports male violence and male domination, that teaches boys that unchecked violence is acceptable, that teaches them to disrespect and hate women.
~ bell hooks
any radical pedagogy must insist that everyone's presence is acknowledged. That insistence cannot be simply stated. It has to be demonstrated through pedagogical practices. To begin, the professor must genuinely value everyone's presence.
~ bell hooks
Feminist movement created a revolution when it demanded respect for women's academic work, recognition of that work past and present, and an end to gender biases in curriculum and pedagogy.
~ bell hooks
Philosophy does not concern itself with children. It leaves them to pedagogy. ??????? ?? ???? ???????? ? ???? ?????? ??? ??? ??????? .
~ Bernhard Schlink
Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.
~ Charlie Sykes
I pay my teachers very well, because pedagogy is the most important of all the sciences
~ Boris Akunin
To be properly educated, one must reject contemporary pedagogical enthusiasms.
~ Brad Miner
In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.
~ Henry Giroux
I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.
~ Michel Foucault
We adults have transformed our society of the spectacle into a pedagogical society whose overwhelming competition, willfully ignorant, has eclipsed the school and the university. The media long ago took over the function of teaching— the time when one hears and sees, the time of seduction and consequence.
~ Michel Serres
Knowing which teachers' practice is typically strong or less strong in relation to specific pedagogy is important if school leaders are to be able to target professional learning, guide and facilitate teachers to learn from each other, and support teachers to develop and improve their practice. Without this knowledge, schools will fail to achieve consistent, high-quality teaching and learning across the school. Teaching
~ Bruce Robertson
Assigning ratings to lessons is high-stakes; evaluating the quality of particular elements of pedagogy is low-stakes.
~ Bruce Robertson
To THE TEACHER WHOSE INTEGRITY AND PEDAGOGICAL SPIRIT HAVE CREATED A SCHOOL WHEREIN THE IDEAL MAY PROVE ITSELF THE PRACTICAL AND THOSE ENTHUSIASTIC PUPILS WHO LOVE THE LOYALTY AND BRAVERY OF ODYSSEUS THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
~ Homer
There's no better way to learn something, and become an expert at it, than to have to teach it.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
This emphasis on grammar is surprising in current pedagogy that focuses on comprehensible input and communicative activities because people can generally communicate their meaning with less than perfect grammar whereas incorrect use of vocabulary can substantially impede communication.
~ Keith S. Folse
The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the future is by improving what they did in the past. There are three major processes in education: the curriculum, which is what the school system expects students to learn; pedagogy, the process by which the system helps students to do it; and assessment, the process of judging how well they are doing.
~ Ken Robinson
They'd never take the standardized tests that they were prepping for. In a way, Amelia had said, this had led to a kind of renaissance in pedagogy. Free from the constraints of racking up high test scores or getting into colleges, students could learn for learning's sake—which was how it ought to be. The tick-tock curriculum had dissolved and been replaced by activities improvised from day to day by teachers and parents:
~ Neal Stephenson
Credo nella pedagogia insieme alla democrazia, perché non c'è l'una senza l'altra.
~ Goffredo Parise
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
~ John Bradshaw
The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.
~ Thomas C. Oden
I believe that science is not simply a matter of exploring new horizons. One must also make the new knowledge readily available .. of such a pedagogical effort.
~ Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
teaching isn't their primary occupation, they have little or no background in pedagogy, and they may work outside institutional classrooms.
~ Greg Wilson