K. Patricia Cross Quotes

• The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Learning, Connections, Structure

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• Teaching, without learning, is just talking

  K. Patricia Cross

  Teaching, Talking

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• The heart is as important as the head in learning

  K. Patricia Cross

  Learning, Heart, Intellectual

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• In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Teacher, Teaching, College

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