Mae Jemison Quotes

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.

I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive, problem-solving, and experimenting; not passively listening.

Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best through stories, some through works of art, some through role play etc. Second of all, we show what it is like really to understand something.

Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.