3442. Making Our Students Think!
We teachers have
to be careful: we may be too much over-focused on teaching strategies (this is,
how to teach) and somehow forget to make our students think, ponder, reason,
discern, meditate.
I mean, of course we have for example to teach a second or
foreign language but our students also have to learn how to think.
As well we
should teach them beauty – in a landscape, a poem, a piece of fine arts… – plus
the fact that any person is unreachable and some mystery: any person is someone
great.
As well we should train our students at speaking in public, solving
problems as a team, holding a nice conversation, explaining some concept…
And
before that, before all that, or at the same time, we teachers have to practice
at thinking, reasoning, pondering, meditating… In few words: teaching is great
and learning as well! We may be teaching our school subject, of course, but let’s
remember to make our students think! / Photo from: commuter_reading
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