PSYC 3410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Emancipation Proclamation, Sodium Bicarbonate, Peter Van Riper
10 Apr 2016
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Thinking in education: the essentials of method. The school experience should teach students to develop their ability to think. thinking is the basis for learning. The method of thinking is what makes a person intelligent: experience: It is the physical that leads a person to think, but a person would need to live an experience through all physical human senses. When teaching, a teacher must take into account the level of life experiences his or her pupil has lived through. It"s so easy sometimes to think of how a situation would be like rather than the hardships of enduring it. [ ] give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional nothing of connections; learning naturally results. (154) Meaning, let the students actually think and learn themselves. Too many kids are just memorizing or learning from only what the teacher says.
