Teaching is for teachers, not students... and if you'd known that when you were at school, all of your suffering would have been at least explicable.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Teaching benefits the instructor more than the learner, and knowing this explains the pain of schooling.
- In plain terms
- School is more about the teacher than the student, so your pain makes sense if you knew that.
- What can you take from it?
- Understanding the true purpose of education can lessen the pain of schooling.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who benefits most from your learning?
- How does understanding intent change your view?
Another view
This view ignores that students can also gain value from teaching moments.
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