This document contains quotes and thoughts from various educators throughout history on teaching practices. It discusses moving away from a traditional lecture-based "sage on the stage" approach to one where students learn by doing, through exploration and questioning. Several quotes advocate for letting students learn at their own pace with guidance from teachers, as opposed to direct instruction. The document also calls for bringing school curriculums out of the 20th century and preparing students with skills like creativity, academics, technology and emotional intelligence for future challenges.

2. Hebrew Proverb
“Do not
confine your
children to
your own
learning for
they were
born in
another time.”

3. Mortimer Jerome Adler
(1902-2001)
“The teacher's
role in discussion
is to keep it going
along fruitful lines
- be moderating,
guiding,
correcting and
arguing like one
more student.”

4. My Mantra:
Guide by
the Side…
…not
Sage on
the Stage

5. Confucius
(551 BC - 479 BC)
“I hear and I
forget.
I see and I
remember.
I do and I
understand.”

6. Lev Semenovich Vygotsky
(1896-1934)
“What a child
can do today
with
assistance,
she will be
able to do by
herself
tomorrow.”

7. David Perkins
“The metaphor (coaching)
with sports is meant quite
seriously... the coach
stands back, observes the
performance, and provides
guidance. The coach
applauds strengths,
identifies weaknesses,
points up principles, offers
guiding and often inspiring
imagery, and decides what
kind of practice to
emphasize.”

8. Mathetics vs. Didactics

9. John Amos Comenius
(1592-1670)
“Let the main
object... to seek
and to find a
method of
instruction, by
which teachers
may teach less,
but learners
learn more.”

10. James Samuel Coleman
(1926-1995)
“Education
must develop
in youth the
capabilities for
engaging in
intense
concentrated
involvement in
an activity.”

11. Mark R. Lepper
(born 1944)
“Expert tutors often
do not help very
much. They hang back
letting the student
manage as much as
possible. And when
things go awry, rather
than help directly they
raise questions: 'Could
you explain this step
again? How did
you...?’”

12. Jean Piaget
(1896-1908)
“Children have real
understanding only
of that which they
invent themselves,
and each time that
we try to teach
them too quickly,
we keep them
from reinventing it
themselves.”

13. Jay Wright Forrester
(born 1918)
“I believe babies
are born as
innovative
personalities...
But our social
processes work
to stamp out
exploration and
questioning.”

14. How did we get here?
Educators are
smart people,
yet we still
haven’t done
enough to
prepare students
for the looming
challenges they
will surely face.
Why is that?

15. Peter Michael Senge
(born 1947)
“Many children
struggle in
schools...
because the way
they are being
taught is
incompatible
with the way
they learn.”

16. Bring schools out
of the 20th century
The NCEE report as
reported by Time
Magazine, featuring
the CATWE curriculum
model:
1.Creativity
2.Academics
3.Technology
4.World-view
5.Emotional
intelligence

17. International Herald Tribune August, 2008

18. Gordon Stanley Brown
(1907-1996)
“To be a teacher
you must be a
prophet -
because you are
trying to prepare
people for a
world thirty to
fifty years into
the future.”

20. Eduardo Chaves
The curriculum will not be
a set of subject matters
(academic disciplines)
organized by grade: it will
be a mosaic of
competencies, in which
each competency will be
linked to the skills, to the
attitudes, to the values
and to the information to
develop it

21. Larry Rosenstock
We tend to structure
our curriculum around
projects. Through the
process of project
management students
learn about how to
define tasks, set
target, find
information and solve
problems proactively
on their own.

22. Lorne McConachie
Working 20 years ago
in designing schools, I
have seen major
movement in
designing. 20 years
ago, you had
computer labs, but
now computers are
everywhere with
wireless connections.

23. Guillaume Apollinaire
(1880-1918)
“Come to the
edge”, he said.
They said, “We are
afraid.” “Come to
the edge”, he said.
They said, “We are
afraid.” “Come to
the edge”, he said.
So they came. He
pushed them...
….and they flew.