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Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking. -- Hyman Bass
Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development -- Lev S. Vygotsky
Repetition is the mother of pedagogy -- Dennis Prager
If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration. -- Lee S Shulman
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. -- Maria Montessori
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? -- Paulo Freire
Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is. -- bell hooks
I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table. -- Isadore Singer
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. -- Anne Sullivan
Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur. -- Janet Flanner
We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy. -- Henry Giroux
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them. -- Henri Poincare
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher. -- Maria Montessori
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive -- bell hooks
The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement...We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America. -- Pat Robertson
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play. -- Plato
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity. -- Paulo Freire
It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease. -- George Steiner
Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world. -- Henry Giroux
This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their specialties-for example, Huxley, Ostwald, Karl Ludwig, Virchow, Billroth, Jowett, William G. Sumner, Halsted and Osler-men who knew nothing whatever about the so-called science of pedagogy, and would have derided its alleged principles if they had heard them stated. -- H. L. Mencken
With the rise of new technologies, media, and other cultural apparatuses as powerful forms of public pedagogy, students need to understand and address how these pedagogical cultural apparatuses work to diffuse learning from any vestige of critical thought. This is a form of public pedagogy that needs to be addressed both for how it deforms and for how it can create important new spaces for emancipatory forms of pedagogy. -- Henry Giroux
The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative. -- Tanya Byron
The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises. -- Michael J. Saylor
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. -- Michael Gove
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding. -- Sugata Mitra
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall! -- Che Guevara
So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived -- Ned Rorem
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems. -- John Bradshaw
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. -- Anne Sullivan
Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb. -- Alison Gopnik
I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes. -- Donald A. Norman
I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy. -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth. -- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world. -- Steven Pinker

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