Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is. — Bell Hooks
The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative. — Tanya Byron
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given — Bertrand Russell
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. — Thomas W. Moore
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. — Andy Rooney
Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment. — Jean Houston
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. — Mark Van Doren
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. — John Dewey
I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first. — Myles Horton
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence. — Jerome Bruner
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. — Nicholas Negroponte
Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions. — Utah Phillips
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. — Maria Montessori
The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises. — Michael Saylor
Short Pedagogy Quotes
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. — Paulo Freire
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information — Paulo Freire
To speak a true word is to transform the world. — Paulo Freire
Only through communication can human life hold meaning. — Paulo Freire
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students. — Paulo Freire
Repetition is the mother of pedagogy — Dennis Prager
Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming. — Paulo Freire
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. — Paulo Freire
If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration. — Lee S Shulman
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Teaching Pedagogy Quotes
The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow. — Paulo Freire
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them. — Henri Poincare
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. — Charles Sanders Peirce
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play. — Plato
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher. — Maria Montessori
I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table. — Isadore Singer
A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching. — David W. Oxtoby
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. — Michael Gove
A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy. — H. L. Mencken
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking. — Hyman Bass
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. — Paulo Freire
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. — Paulo Freire
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. — Paulo Freire
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. — Paulo Freire
That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one. — Pedro Noguera
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? — Paulo Freire
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity. — Paulo Freire
Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world. — Henry Giroux
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. — Paulo Freire
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth. — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects. — Paulo Freire
In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician. — Rebecca Goldstein
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them. — Paulo Freire
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression. — Paulo Freire
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform. — Paulo Freire
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity. — Paulo Freire
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future. — Paulo Freire
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world. — Steven Pinker
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade — Paulo Freire
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle. — Paulo Freire
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world. — Paulo Freire
In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation. — Paulo Freire
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive — Bell Hooks
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire
The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create market-driven subjects, modes of consciousness, and ways of understanding the world that promote accommodation, quietism and passivity. — Henry Giroux
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