Topic 4: Teaching without teaching
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The higher education system that is in place is a very ineffective way to get students to truly learn and immerse themselves in the course content. Most teachers use powerpoint and just regurgitate information to their students in order to get things done more efficiently. However, this is hurting student in the long run. In order for students to learn, teachers must supply students with the materials for students to learn either independently or with a group. Students must take their education into their own hands and learn from experience and discovery instead of being spoon-fed information.
Freire:
“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re- invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
“From the outset, her efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanization. His efforts must be imbued with a profound trust in people and their creative power. To achieve this, they must be partners of the students in their relations with them.”
“…no one teaches another, nor is anyone self-taught.”
Percy:
“…the caste of layman-expert is not the fault of the expert. It is due altogether to the eager surrender of sovereignty by the layman so that he may take up the role not of the person but of the consumer.”
“A reader may surrender sovereignty over that which has been written about, just as a consumer may surrender sovereignty over a thing which has been theorized about. The consumer is content to receive an experience just as it has been presented to him by theorists and planners.”
