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Articles with tag: teaching

Teaching Science Badly – and Well

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Mar 1, 2007   interacts: 244

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.

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