This document discusses teaching and learning processes. It contains several quotes about education. The quotes emphasize that learning is a self-directed process, teachers should inspire students rather than just dictate information, and the best teachers demonstrate and help students learn from each other rather than just explaining concepts. The document also argues that traditional schooling approaches treat learning as something separate from living and do not respect students' experiences or curiosity.

1. DOWN TO EARTH
TEACHING AND LEARNING
PROCESS
FCCISL
CHAMBER ACADEMY
VAVUNIYA
20.05.2010

2. There is no learning
in the absence of
self learning
Obstacles are the very frightful things
we see
when we take our minds off our goals.

3. No amount of knowledge
Is ever enough for a teacher
No method is ever perfect
To doubt, To seek, And To doubt again
To make up the wanderlust
To which
A dedicated teacher commits himself
- W.H.Oles

4. A bad teacher dictates,
The mediocre teacher tells,
The good teacher explains,
The superior one demonstrates and
The great teacher inspires.
- Willam Arther Ward
The best of all makes us to learn.

5. Almost every child, on the first day he sets
foot in a school building, is smarter, most
curious, less afraid of what he doesn’t know,
better at finding and figuring things out,
most confident, resourceful, persistent and
independent than he will ever be again in his
schooling.

6. When he comes, this curious, patient,
determined, energetic skilful learner,
we sit him down at a desk and what do we
teach him? many things. First ,that learning
is separate from living.

7. “ you come to school to learn”, we tell him.
As if the child hadn’t been learning before,
as if living were out there and learning
were in here, and there were no connection
between the two.

8. Secondly, that he can't be trusted to learn
and is no good at it.

9. Every thing we teach about reading, a task
fast simpler than many that the child has
already mastered, says to him “ if you don’t
make you read, you want, and if you don’t
do it exactly the way we tell you. You can’t
in short, he comes to learn learning is a
passive process, something that someone
else does to you. Instead of something do
you for yourself.

10. In a great many other way, learns that he is
worthless un trust worthy, faith only take other
people orders, a blank sheet for other people to
write on.

11. Oh! We make a lot of nice noises in schools
about respect for the child an individuals
differences and the like. But our acts as opposed
to our talk, say to the child , “ your experience,
your concerns, your curiosities, your needs.
What you know? What you want? What you
wonder about? What you hope for? What you
fear? What you like and dislike, What you are
good at or not so good at all this of not the
slightest importance. It counts for nothing.

12. When the child given the not opportunity not
given confidence, he learns that to be wrong ,
uncertain, confused, is a crime. Right answers
are what the school wants, and he learns
countless strategies for prying these answers out
of the teacher, for conning her into thinking he
knows what he doesn’t know. He learn to dodge,
bluff, fake, cheat. He learns to be lazy.

13. Let children work together, help each other,
learn from each other and each other’s
mistakes. We now know,
from the experience of many schools,
both rich – suburban and poor city,
that the children are often the best teachers of
other children. What is more important, we
know that when fifth or sixth - grader who has
been having trouble with reading starts helping
a first grader, his own reading sharply improves

14. Nothing is more difficult than to determine
What a child takes in and does not take in,
of its environment and teaching
- Laurence David herbert

15. A man would do nothing
If he waited
Until he could do it so well
That no one would
Find fault with
What he has done
- Cardinal Neuman
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