Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children['s] [...] normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand.

There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's a firs…

Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't k…

If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing …

We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-ess…

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.