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Memo to Education Policy Makers

Posted on December 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

Jacques Barzun as Quoted in Newsweek (1955)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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Plato on Differentiated Instruction

Posted on November 2, 2015 | 2 comments

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

Plato (427?-347 B.C.)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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A Couple of Thoughts as the School Year Begins

Posted on September 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

“We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only who is in a fundamental sense a scholar—that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire—can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.”

Nathan M. Pusey The Age of the Scholar (1963)

“Our best chance for happiness is education.”

Mark Van Doren (1894-1973)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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