#learnin

In designing tasks, the instructor should take care to ensure that the task design requires active student participation and promotes the acquisition of the task's pedagogical goals. ↗

— Abdi Kazeroni

#pedagogy #student #tasks #teaching #design

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. ↗

— Iain Pears

#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge

Assessment in this spirit does not concern assignment of grades or evaluation of whether instruction was effective. It's assessment designed squarely to feed into the learning process and make the learning stronger. ↗

— David N. Perkins

#learning #design

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. ↗

— Phil Collins

#learning #mentoring #teaching #education

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#learning #education

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. ↗

— John Adams

#lifelong-learning #reading #education

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#encouragement #instruction #learning #school #education

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#learning #teaching #education

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#attain #because #being #free #highest

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#education #lifelong-learning #education