Thursday, November 29, 2018

Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XVII

-The Human Values Education teacher will no be proselytizing about any religion or creed, but, rather, aiming to perfect oneself so that students might more readily become perfect themselves.
-We are all diamonds covered with mud. You are not the mud, your are the diamond.
-You are a King who has been asleep.
-One must always choose the path with heart in order to be at one's best. Carlos Castaneda.
-Our natural inclination is to be selfless, generous and loving.
-The process of education has to inspire.
-Present education is more about preparation for joining the workforce than about how to reach one's full potential as a human being.
-Quality teaching places more emphasis on student engagement with learning and less emphasis on linear and developmental notions of learning. Learning is then regarded as something to which students will gravitate quiet naturally when it is meaningful and when the learning activities allow opportunities for student input, discussion or collaboration.
-Learning is at its best when we are happy and content within our social relationships, when we ourselves have played a part in the choice of what is to be learned; when we can apply what we have been learning to real-world situations; and when our feeling of self-worth is enhanced by helping others with the knowledge we have gained.
-Instead of teaching curriculum content, it is more effective to provide conditions whereby the students can learn the material using more of their own initiatives, with assistance provided where necessary.
-The character strengths come into play when a teacher dares to run the risk of treating students as human beings with enormous human potential.
-If you serve without love, it is not service at all. Sathya Sai Baba.
-There is much to be gained from putting in effort in a neurological sense. Our brain develops neuronal circuits that can respond up to 3000 times faster when we strive to persevere and do our very best.
-Every part of the content of the curriculum can be utilized as opportunities for the Human Values to come alive in the students.

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