Articles with tag: teaching

Educational Practices in Private Schools in Pakistan

Farzana Tahir Aug 26, 2008 interacts: 73

Education has becomes an act of depositing. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat.

Teaching Science Badly – and Well

Pervez Hoodbhoy Mar 1, 2007 interacts: 245

Dogmatism kills science. Students should therefore experience science as a process for extending understanding, not as unalterable truth. Never should the teacher say X or Y is true just because that’s what the textbook says.

Banish Those Teacher Blues

Shandana Minhas Sep 8, 2003 interacts: 22

For several generations now, the people of my family have been educating others about the best way to do things. Some of them have been teachers too

Masters of Mimicry

Fazilat Thaver Nov 9, 1999 interacts: 53

I could empathize with blue-eyed British girls called Kate ...

Teaching and Popularizing Science

Q Isa Daudpota Oct 24, 1997 interacts: 2

Striking demonstrations that destroy deeply entrenched ideas are essential -- it is through them that minds open and newer pathways of understanding develop.