Quotes on Teaching and Learning
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.
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Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth
Going by the videos that they post online, it seems like a lot of teachers are little bullies who desperately want to be dictators. They seem to love the power they get from being a big fish in a little pond. These 'kings' and 'queens' of the classroom can't simply teach; they must indoctrinate. It's like they have a virus that compels them to infect children's minds with boiling hatred and twisted lies.
Duane Alan Hahn (2022y_03m_03d)
Most people who believe themselves to be ‘well educated’ are in fact merely just well indoctrinated.
Fairness does not mean that everyone gets the same. Fairness means that everyone gets what he or she needs.
Richard Lavoie from How Difficult Can This Be? (#ad)
There's put-down humor, where a person or a group of people is the target of cruelty in the guise of a "joke." And then there's inclusive humor—the kind I practice and promote in my work. Inclusive humor means everyone is included in the laughter and it isn't at anyone else's expense.
Lynn Grasberg
The Earth is Growing
Pangea Theory Proven Wrong!
People who are accomplished are not only willing, but often enthusiastic about and looking for people to request their assistance in accomplishing. Accomplished people help people accomplish. And I say this also in the general sense, I don't just mean someone who's accomplished. (You know we have professional athletes or Pulitzer winners here on this show.) I do mean this in the general sense, if you are accomplished in any area, it is your duty to share it. I don't mean be a know-it-all, but I mean if you know that you could help someone with some advice, if you could help them with some coaching, I don't know what it is, if you find something that you believe is a gift that has improved your life, it can even be as simple as that, something that's improved your life and you know it would improve the lives of others, it is your duty to share it. It's your duty to impart wisdom.
The tests are largely a speed processing test, they're not an intelligence test. And there are many, many students who may be brilliant, may be very talented, but are not successfully measured by speed processing.
William Hiss (CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, February 18, 2014)
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino
There was a cover story in Fortune magazine…on chief executive officers who had dyslexia and of course, until recently, dyslexics were treated like dirt in the school system. And the guy who ran Kinko's was a dyslexic and I love this: when he was being just battered and bruised in school his mother told him not to worry Paul, in the long run, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the businesses and the D students get the buildings named after them.
Tom Peters
Tell if you know, ask if you don't.
Duane Alan Hahn
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Malcolm Muggeridge went over to the Soviet Union to check out how the collectivization of the farms was going and he found out it was actually pretty murderous. What the communists did was round up all the successful farmers and rape them and kill them and steal everything they had and send them off to Siberia; which turned out actually to be a pretty bad idea. Now you think about it, those people were serfs not very long before, a couple of generations at most. They were not much more than slaves and some of them had risen up to the point where they may have had a nice brick house and a couple of cows and maybe a person working for them or two.
There was a small proportion of the agriculturalists in the soviet union that were producing most of the food and that's just how it goes because that's a Pareto distribution issue. In any field where there's human productivity, a small proportion of the people produce almost all of the output (it's actually the square root of the number of people in the field produce half the output). So if you have a hundred farmers, ten of them produce half the food, but if you have ten thousand, a hundred of them produce half the food.
Okay, so what happens when you kill all the good farmers? You starve six million Ukrainians to death in the 1930s and you know that's not something that's all that widely known, but if you want to provide some additional fodder for your nightmares, you could go online and read about what happened to the Ukrainians in the 1930s.
Jordan B Peterson (adapted)
Wikipedia says that “10 million people died of starvation across the USSR” during that time. If people such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren would get their way, we might expect something similar to happen in the USA. We've already seen the damage that Democrats in charge of various cities have done, so multiply that damage by ten thousand and apply it to the whole country. If people could clear their minds of the lies they've been told about Trump by the “news” and late night comedy shows, they would see that Trump was the only choice in 2020.
Fairness (Richard Lavoie)
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. . . as I speak to parents and teachers all over this country, I see classrooms and families being run based on the adults' concept of honesty, the adults' concept of truth, the adults' concept of liberty, patriotism, religion. And yet those same families and classrooms are being run based on the child's concept of fairness.
What I'd like you to do when this session is over tonight, is go home and walk into your attic, pull down your old philosophy books from high school or college, or even take out a Webster's dictionary, and look up the definition of "fairness." Fairness does not mean that everyone gets the same, fairness actually means that everyone gets what he or she needs.
And yet still, I'll deal with teachers where I'll say to a teacher, "Jody's going to be in your class next semester, teacher, and she's a wonderful, very bright kid. She's going to do very well in your math class, but she's got a learning disability and it's called a 'far-point copying problem,' and she can't copy off the blackboard. So here's what I'd like you to do: when you put problems on the blackboard for everyone to copy, I'd like you to write up an extra set for Jody and give that to Jody. And if that doesn't work, you don't have time for that, Lee's pretty quick, maybe Lee could write up two sets and then hand one across to Jody or even put a piece of carbon paper under Lee's sheet, so when she writes up one set of problems, there's an extra one automatically to give to Jody. I'd like you to do that please."
Invariably the teacher will say, "I can't do that." And I say, "why not?" There's a lot of answers I'll accept. I'll accept "because I don't know how." I'll accept "because I don't have time." I'll accept "because I don't believe in mainstreaming." I'll accept "because I don't like Jody." I will go to the mat with a teacher and I will discuss any one of those answers with a teacher. The one answer I will not discuss, the one answer that I think is beneath contempt and beneath discussing is the answer I hear most often, and that is: "I can't do that for Jody because it's not fair to the others." It's got nothing to do with the others! Jody needs it, the others don't. It has nothing to do with the others.
Let's take it and try it in an adult situation. Suppose I'm up here lecturing. In the middle of my lecture, god forbid in the middle of my lecture, Carolyn here falls off her chair. I look down at her and she's turning blue; cardiac arrest. God forbid, she's having a heart attack right in front of us, and I'm trained in C.P.R. technique, so I know what to do. How ludicrous, how unfair, how absolutely foolish and unethical would it be for me to say, "hey Carolyn, I'd like to help you, I really would, but heck we've got 30 people here. I haven't got time to give C.P.R. to everybody, and it wouldn't be fair to only give it to you." But the teacher who says, "I can't help the L.D. Child because it's not fair to the others" is working at the same moral level as a ten-year-old child.
And it's particularly important for you as parents to understand, because I know a lot of parents of special needs kids who spend full-time beating themselves up and trying to keep the scales balanced: "What do I do? Johnny, the L.D. Child, needs a special tutor. How do I make that up to the other kids, so that I'm fair to everybody?" You don't have to. As long as you can look into the eyes of the siblings and say, "honey, if it was you, I'd be doing the same thing."
Fairness does not mean that everyone gets the same. Fairness means that everyone gets what he or she needs. And we're not going to be able to work successfully with the child, mainstream child, learning disabled child, in the mainstream classroom until teachers and parents begin to understand that in order to be fair we've got to treat them differently.
It seems that, as parents and educators, we mold children's values and morals. We teach them valuable lessons related to honesty, courage, integrity, loyalty and so on. Yet it seems that we allow children to dictate to us the concept of 'fairness.' When asked to define 'fairness,' most children respond: "Fairness means everybody gets the same." Unfortunately, we often allow children to convince us that this indeed is the definition of that concept. As a result, we attempt to deal with all children in an identical manner. When a teacher modifies a lesson for an LD child or adjusts the course requirements for him, his classmates charge that the situation is 'unfair.' Rather than respond to their complaints, the teacher should explain that the mature conceptualization of 'fairness' is not equal, identical treatment; rather, 'fairness' means that every student receives what he needs. Because each individual's needs are different, 'fairness' dictates that their programs and expectations will be different. Children are capable of understanding this concept if it is explained clearly and if it is observed daily in the teacher's modeling behavior.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter F. Drucker
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
John Dewey
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick W. Robertson
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
George Carlin on Education
Bill Wesley at YouTube had this to say about the clip above: "There, that wasn't so bad, just a little pin prick injection of direct honesty instead of the usual quack tincture of pretend analysis. I can tell you what our masters fear the most and it's not education, it's worse than education. They fear unsigned creativity, individual invention and integrity. What we call 'education' is really just 'regimentation.' The goal is not to promote understanding, but rather to prevent originality. An independently owned patent can bring down an entire corporation."
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There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
Unknown
He that imagines he has knowledge enough has none.
Unknown
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas Carruthers
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
When you only read things that you agree with, the mind becomes stagnant.
Duane Alan Hahn
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows—and I needn't.
Francis Yeats-Brown
When one teaches, two learn.
Robert Half
You teach what you have to learn. It is not necessary to have achieved perfection to speak of perfection. It is not necessary to have achieved mastery to speak of mastery.
God from Conversations with God (Book 3) (#ad) through Neale Donald Walsch
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
One of the most exciting developments in modern education goes by the name of cooperative (or collaborative) learning and has children working in pairs or small groups. An impressive collection of studies has shown that participation in well-functioning cooperative groups leads students to feel more positive about themselves, about each other, and about the subject they're studying. Students also learn more effectively on a variety of measures when they can learn with each other instead of against each other or apart from each other. Cooperative learning works with kindergartners and graduate students, with students who struggle to understand and students who pick things up instantly; it works for math and science, language skills and social studies, fine arts and foreign languages.
Alfie Kohn from Punished By Rewards (#ad)
We destroy the…love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards—gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists, or Phi Beta Kappa keys—in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else.
John Holt
Alfie Kohn - Education and Competition
One must marvel at the intellectual quality of a teacher who can't understand why children assault one another in the hallway, playground, and city street, when in the classroom the highest accolades are reserved for those who have beaten their peers. In many subtle and some not so subtle ways, teachers demonstrate that what children learn means much less than that they triumph over their classmates. Is this not assault? . . . Classroom defeat is only the pebble that creates widening ripples of hostility. It is self-perpetuating. It is reinforced by peer censure, parental disapproval, and loss of self-concept. If the classroom is a model, and if that classroom models competition, assault in the hallways should surprise no one.
Joseph Wax
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism…the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Henry S. Canby
Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius
It's easy to point a finger, but much harder to point the way.
Duane Alan Hahn
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
Seneca
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Many people are doing what amounts to an experiment on these young people without telling them it’s an experiment. You need evidence for that and this is a very serious treatment. It is comparable to doing frontal lobotomies.
I believe it will be something like how we think of eugenics now. We will come to regret it when we discover how many of the young people that were injured regret it themselves.
Dr. Paul McHugh from the article Johns Hopkins Professor on Child Transgender Trend: ‘Many Will Regret This’ at thecollegefix.com
Did you know that Trump's rushed Operation Warp Speed rona jab has less than one percent overall benefit? Some people call it the depopulation jab and it has many possible horrible side effects (depending on the lot number, concentration, and if it was kept cold). Remember when many Democrats were against Trump's Operation Warp Speed depopulation jab, then they quickly changed their minds when Biden flip-flopped and started pushing it?
Some brainwashed rona jab cultists claim that there are no victims of the jab, but person after person will post what the jab did to them, a friend, or a family member on web sites such as Facebook and they'll be lucky if they don't get banned soon after. Posting the truth is “misinformation” don't you know. Awakened sheep might turn into lions, so powerful people will do just about anything to keep the sheep from waking up.
Check out these videos:
If You Got the COVID Shot and Aren't Injured, This May Be Why
Thought Experiment: What Happens After the Jab?
The Truth About Polio and Vaccines
What Is Causing the Mysterious Self-Assembling Non-Organic Clots and Sudden Deaths?
Take a look at my page about the famous demonized medicines called The H Word and Beyond. You might also want to look at my page called Zinc and Quercetin. My sister and I have been taking zinc and quercetin since the summer of 2020 in the hopes that they would scare away the flu and other viruses (or at least make them less severe). Here's one more page to check out: My Sister's Experiences With COVID-19.
Some people appear to have a mental illness because they have a vitamin B deficiency. For example, the wife of a guy I used to chat with online had severe mood swings which seemed to be caused by food allergies or intolerances. She would became irrational, obnoxious, throw tantrums, and generally act like she had a mental illness. The horrid behavior stopped after she started taking a vitamin B complex. I've been taking Jarrow B-Right (#ad) for many years. It makes me much easier to live with.
Unfermented soy is bad! “When she stopped eating soy, the mental problems went away.” Fermented soy doesn't bother me, but the various versions of unfermented soy (soy flour, soybean oil, and so on) that are used in all kinds of products these days causes a negative mental health reaction in me that a vitamin B complex can't tame. The sinister encroachment of soy has made the careful reading of ingredients a necessity.
If you are overweight, have type II diabetes, or are worried about the condition of your heart, check out the videos by Ken D Berry, William Davis, and Ivor Cummins. It seems that most people should avoid wheat, not just those who have a wheat allergy or celiac disease. Check out these books: Undoctored (#ad), Wheat Belly (#ad), and Eat Rich, Live Long (#ad).
Negative ions are good for us. You might want to avoid positive ion generators and ozone generators. A plain old air cleaner is better than nothing, but one that produces negative ions makes the air in a room fresher and easier for me to breathe. It also helps to brighten my mood.
Never litter. Toss it in the trash or take it home. Do not throw it on the ground. Also remember that good people clean up after themselves at home, out in public, at a campsite and so on. Leave it better than you found it.
Climate Change Cash Grab = Bad
Seems like more people than ever finally care about water, land, and air pollution, but the climate change cash grab scam is designed to put more of your money into the bank accounts of greedy politicians. Those power-hungry schemers try to trick us with bad data and lies about overpopulation while pretending to be caring do-gooders. Trying to eliminate pollution is a good thing, but the carbon footprint of the average law-abiding human right now is actually making the planet greener instead of killing it.
Eliminating farms and ranches, eating bugs, getting locked down in 15-minute cities, owning nothing, using digital currency (with expiration dates) that is tied to your social credit score, and paying higher taxes will not make things better and “save the Earth.” All that stuff is part of an agenda that has nothing to do with making the world a better place for the average person. It's all about control, depopulation, and making things better for the ultra-rich. They just want enough peasants left alive to keep things running smoothly.
Watch these two videos for more information:
Charlie Robinson had some good advice about waking up normies (see the link to the video below). He said instead of verbally unloading or being nasty or acting like a bully, ask the person a question. Being nice and asking a question will help the person actually think about the subject.
Interesting videos:
Charlie Robinson Talks About the Best Way to Wake Up Normies
Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem
Teaching and Learning
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