Saturday, March 30, 2013

Teaching Beyond the Transmission of Knowledge | Education | M.A.Escotet

Teaching Beyond the Transmission of Knowledge | Education | M.A.Escotet:


Teaching Beyond the Transmission of Knowledge

“Teaching to the test at the expense of teaching to the heart is wrong and reduces education to a very superficial acquisition of knowledge and values. Standardized testing for measuring knowledge, skills and attitudes goes against learning styles and individual differences.”

“One of the most important rules of teaching is to preach by example. Are all faculty in teacher preparation programs practicing what they preach?”


It is our believe that the aim of education should be to build in each student strong theoretical foundations, to help future teachers to be educated rather than trained, to be capable of understanding the complexities of the organic society —Gemeinschaft— rather than just the reduction of people to human