Unit II School and Education.pptVIP

Unit II School and Education Part One: the Quotations The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before –Elbert Hubbard The teacher inspires the students to be creative. On their own, students will produce new ideas, but with a teacher, they will be twice as creative, if not more so. Part One: the Quotations The entire object of true education is to make people not merely (only) do the right things, but enjoy the right things. —John Ruskin Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. —John Ruskin The goal of true education is not just about behaving well, but about appreciating right values. The former is external whereas the latter is internal. Part One: the Quotations Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate (put up with) ambiguity (vagueness, uncertainty), consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable –Bill Moyers Good teaching should help students handle uncertainties, explore alternatives and probe into seemingly intractable (难处理的）situations with boldness. Reading One: What True Education Should Do Check your comprehension According to the author, true education should try its best to “draw out” what a student has within him rather than “pour knowledge” into him. When students are treated as oysters, a teacher would help them to open up reveal the pearl (riches) within. When Reading One: Check your comprehension students are treated like sausages, a teacher would stuff them and then seal them up. Yes, they can. The author gives a concrete example of how Socrates picks up an ignorant slave boy, who has no school education at all, and proves that the boy really “knows” geometry. Reading One: Check your comprehension The author holds this view because the discussions are about what should “go into” the students rather than what should be “drawn out.” According to the author, true education should try to cultivate what is hidden inside. He has to spend all his time doing what the