Our recent Saunterings brought an article from the November, 1946, The American Biology Teacher: “Of What Does Good Biology Teaching Consist?,” by Otis W. Caldwell, who tells of a letter to him from noted biologist James G. Needham, in which Needham wrote of some truths about learning. Two deserve reprinting; they apply to learning anything at any age:
The first: I always told my pupils: "It is not what I do, but what you do, that educates you."
The second: "I took occasion to remind them sometimes that Growth is the most noiseless process in the world."
For a short biography of James G. Needham, click here.
The first: I always told my pupils: "It is not what I do, but what you do, that educates you."
The second: "I took occasion to remind them sometimes that Growth is the most noiseless process in the world."
For a short biography of James G. Needham, click here.
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