Mortimer Adler Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Memories, Discovery

  Mortimer J. Adler (1998). “Paideia Proposal”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

• Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

  Mortimer Adler

  School, Errors, Judging

• A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Mind, Lectures

• The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1982). “The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto”, Touchstone

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