We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … 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.
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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
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