Eleanor Duckworth quotes
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“What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own”
-- Eleanor DuckworthSource : Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”
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“Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.”
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“Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. It is automatic. It is thoughtless”
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“Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach,”
-- Eleanor DuckworthSource : "5 Great Teachers On What Makes A Great Teacher". Interview with Anya Kamenetz, www.npr.org. November 8, 2014.
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“You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.”
-- Eleanor DuckworthSource : Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”
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“To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas.”
-- Eleanor Duckworth
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
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Source : Achmat Dangor (1999). “Kafka's Curse”, Pantheon
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