We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity β¦ by actually talking with them.
Interpretation
Education should focus on sparking creativity rather than just delivering information.
Daphne Koller emphasizes the importance of engaging students in a dialogue that fosters creativity, rather than simply bombarding them with information through traditional lecturing methods. This approach suggests that true learning comes from interaction and the nurturing of innovative thoughts, rather than passive absorption of content.
In practice
A teacher may use this quote during a workshop on innovative teaching methods.
Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.
I read a lot, I write a lot, and I have conversations with people I think are intelligent and wise.
If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
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