Some teaching quotes to make you think

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The teacher of the education class I'm taking this semester has a fascinating perspective on how we interact with children. Last week she said:

Education shouldn't be something we DO to children.

That really struck a chord with me - how often do we look at kids and think ok sit down and shaddup, I need to get through this lesson!

Rudolph Flesch, in his 1954 book "Why Johnny Can't Read" talks a lot about how we can't just force reading on kids and expect them to keep up BECAUSE I SAID SO.

Don't you see how degrading this whole process is? The child is never told why this heap of letters means "chicken" and not "giraffe" or "kangaroo" . . . Don't you know that the main question in all children's minds is the question "Why?" . . . It's "chicken" because the teacher says so. Conditioning is an authoritarian process.

Our kids deserve better than that.

Reading with Jen Strange

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