It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life. His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time. Phyllis Brooks Teaching is truth mediated by personality. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Teaching is the achievement of shared meaning.
The secret of education is respecting the pupil. The lasting measure of good teaching is what the individual student learns and carries away. In all the years I've lived I have yet to stop learning. We shouldn't teach great books, we should teach a love of reading. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.