Stephen Brookfield quotes

Stephen Brookfield quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.”
-- Stephen Brookfield

Source : Stephen Brookfield (1995). “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher”, Jossey-Bass

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“We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.”
-- Stephen Brookfield

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“The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.”
-- Stephen Brookfield

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“Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.”
-- Stephen Brookfield

Source : Stephen Brookfield (1995). “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher”, Jossey-Bass

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