Quotes About Pedagogy

#1. So far as musical pedagogy is concerned -
And by extension of musical creation -
Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived

Ned Rorem

#2. A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!

Che Guevara

#3. The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

Tanya Byron

#4. Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

Hyman Bass

#5. Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

Michael Gove

#6. In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

John Bradshaw

#7. The school must permit the free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born. This is the essential reform. No one may affirm that such a

Maria Montessori

#8. The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.

Michael J. Saylor

#9. Do SMART Boards and iPads really change pedagogy for the millions of students institutionally ostracized based on their race, religion, or gender? Or are they merely Band-Aids that can be used to say, "Oh look, we did something and we never had to get our hands dirty to make it happen"?

Jose Vilson

#10. Pedagogy and Equality are always trumped by Maternity.

Jessica Brockmole

#11. I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.

Donald A. Norman

#12. I am vertigiously reminded that the human race refreshes itself in absolute ignorance and that without an enormous, never-ending labor of pedagogy, everything wpold go to hell.

Joseph O'Neill

#13. Efficiency and economy simply do not make good pedagogy.

Paul Lockhart

#14. We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.

Henry Giroux

#15. 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

#16. A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely, pedagogy is curriculum, because what matters is how things are taught, rather than what is taught.

Dylan Wiliam

#17. I was more than an elementary teacher, for I was present, or directly taught the children, from eight in the morning to seven in the evening without interruption. These two years of practice are my first and indeed my true degree in pedagogy. From the very beginning of my

Maria Montessori

#18. It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

George Steiner

#19. How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Paulo Freire

#20. No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54).

Paulo Freire

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. critical pedagogy becomes a project that stresses the need for teachers and students to actively transform knowledge rather than simply consume it.

Henry A. Giroux

#24. Teachers who are accountable to principals who are, in turn, accountable to school communities are likely to be more professionally 'grounded' and less susceptible to avant garde fashions in curriculum and pedagogy. School

Tony Abbott

#25. I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

#26. Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

Abraham Kuyper

#27. Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Janet Flanner

#28. 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

#29. I am vertiginously reminded that the human race refreshes itself in absolute ignorance and that without an enormous, never-ending labor of pedagogy, everything would go to hell.

Joseph O'Neill

#30. I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep.

Maggie Nelson

#31. 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

#32. I pay my teachers very well, because pedagogy is the most important of all the sciences,

Boris Akunin

#33. Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

Dennis Prager

#34. In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

Henry Giroux

#35. The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.

Thomas C. Oden

#36. It is precisely because I believe it is not possible to neatly separate the sexual from other sorts of relations that I find the movement to bar the sexual from pedagogy not only dangerous but supremely impractical.

Jane Gallop

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development

Lev S. Vygotsky

#40. Mrs. Mendeleyev hitchhiked with young Dmitri four thousand miles to St. Petersburg - that's equivalent to travelling from London to Equatorial Guinea - and deposited him at the Institute of Pedagogy.

Bill Bryson

#41. Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Anne Sullivan

#42. Today small boys and young men are daily inundated with a poisonous pedagogy that supports male violence and male domination, that teaches boys that unchecked violence is acceptable, that teaches them to disrespect and hate women.

Bell Hooks

#43. The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement ... We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America.

Pat Robertson

#44. We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

Sugata Mitra

#45. 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

#46. Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

Alison Gopnik

#47. critical pedagogy illuminates how classroom learning embodies selective values, is entangled with relations of power, entails judgments about what knowledge counts, legitimates specific social relations, defines agency in particular ways, and always presupposes a particular notion of the future.

Henry A. Giroux

#48. 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

#49. To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.

Jacques Ranciere

#50. school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice

Oakes Jeannie

#51. ...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

Bill Bigelow

#52. The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

Freeman Dyson

#53. Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.

Jay Cross

#54. It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

Paulo Freire

#55. The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults ...

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#56. To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

Donna Freitas

#57. Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.

Seymour Papert

#58. The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

Paulo Freire

#59. School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Ivan Illich

#60. Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#61. The world as it was, is, or will be, is beyond common sense, beyond natural understanding: it must be taught.

Masood Ashraf Raja

#62. It seems to me that the binary opposition that is so much embedded in Western thought and language makes it nearly impossible to project a complex response.

Bell Hooks

#63. The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#64. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

Paulo Freire

#65. Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Paulo Freire

#66. Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

J.K. Rowling