Education Quotes

I thought I would post some guotes that I have seen over time. I write them down in a notebook so I can always have them. What do you think.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.
-- Deborah Meier

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
-- George Evans

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
-- Doris Lessing

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
-- Plato

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
-- Anonymous

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.
-- Anonymous

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.
-- Joseph Campbell

I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.
-- Chinese Proverb

The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
-- Robert Maynard Hutchins

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
-- Marva Collins

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
-- Henry B. Adams

Constructivist Perspective

Children are viewed as constructing their own system of knowledge, intelligence, morality, and personality. The emphasis is on learning through action. While "action" refers to mental action, young children are most active mentally when they are physically engaged in figuring out how to do something. What distinguishes the constructivist approach from other models that stress active learning is that children learn by inferring from what they do and creating a system of knowledge from this activity. The general principle of constructivism is that children create a coherent system of knowledge based on their interactions with the world. The constructivist perspective on learning allows students to relate problem solving techniques along with discovery.

http://www.circleofinclusion.org/english/approaches/kamii.html

Parent Involvement

When schools, families, and community groups work together to support learning, children tend to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more.
Research on parent involvement over the past decade, goes on to find that, regardless of family income or background, "students with involved parents are more likely to:”

• Earn higher grades and test scores, and enroll in higher-level programs

• Be promoted, pass their classes, and earn credits

• Attend school regularly

• Have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school; and

• Graduate and go on to post-secondary education

http://www.edweek.org/rc/issues/parent-involvement/

Behaviorist Perspective

Behaviorist approaches are different from most other perspectives because they view people as controlled by their environment and specifically that we are the result of what we have learned from our environment. The early philosophical base for this learning perspective of personality is English philosopher, John Locke (1632-1704) who viewed the newborn baby as a blank slate - tabula rasa - on whom the experience of life would write a specific story. B. F. Skinner is the best-known behaviorist, is described as a radical behaviorist. Skinner believed that all of our behavior is the result of punishment and reward; this theory forms the principles of operant conditioning that he proposed. The primary focus of the behavioral perspective is on behavior and the influence of the external environment in shaping of the individual’s behavior. Teaching, therefore, refers to the environmental conditions that are arranged and presented to students. The teacher should state the objectives of the instruction as learner behaviors. In addition to identifying the goal behavior, this involves breaking that goal down into a set of simpler behaviors and arranging them in a sequence of frames that will help students’ progress towards the goal. The teacher should use cues to guide students to the desired behavior. The teacher should select and use consequences to reinforce the desired behavior since behaviors that are reinforced are more likely to be repeated.

Perspectives of Learning

I am going to be discussing the four major Perspectives of Learning, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Constructivist, and Social Psychological. I would also like to discuss what their implications are in learning.