Seymour Papert Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

  Seymour Papert

  Education, Teacher, School

• You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

  Seymour Papert

  Education, Teacher, Learning

• We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their own visions … not one that that merely succeeds in making apathetic students satisfy minimal standards.

  Seymour Papert

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  "Vision for Education: The Caperton-Papert Platform" by Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, www.papert.org. August 1999.

• I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to help them learn helped them become better teachers. That's because they no longer had to pretend they were the experts - not only about computers but about other things.

  Seymour Papert

  Teacher, Children, Adults

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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