Eleanor Duckworth quotes

“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 Duckworth

Source : 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.”
-- Eleanor Duckworth

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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”
-- Eleanor Duckworth

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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 Duckworth

Source : "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 Duckworth

Source : 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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“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.”

“Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”

“All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”

“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”

“It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled”

Source : Achmat Dangor (1999). “Kafka's Curse”, Pantheon