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>To teach someone something is to answer that person’s questions about some subject matter. I wonder if this would be better said, "To teach someone something
by irrational 5y ago
>To teach someone something is to answer that person’s questions about some subject matter.
I wonder if this would be better said, "To teach someone something is to answer the questions that a person should have about some subject matter."
I'm thinking about school children and I imagine most of them would claim they have no questions about the subject matter and can we please be finished now?
- JellyBeanThief 5y agoMy question then would be: can a disinterested school child be taught as well as an interested school child? Because if this is not so, then it seems to me that the first task of an effective teacher is not to plow ahead answering questions the student doesn't have (and may not even understand), but to provoke those questions in the student.
- beaconstudios 5y agoThat's the principle of constructivist teaching methods - you're not transferring information, you're helping the student construct a mental model. Thus, rather than just dumping info, you have to probe the student's model to see if they truly understand, and teach to the misunderstandings.
- dublin 5y agoThe art of teaching (or management, or any other kind of leadership) is not communicating information and directing activities, but instilling a curiosity, want, or desire to learn and do. Once you do that, there's no stopping an intelligent person from learning. (As Jordan Peterson (among others) correctly points out, though, there is a minimum human intelligence level required for that baseline curiosity, and alas, much of humanity doesn't reach that bar, especially in certain regions of the world...)