Béla H. Bánáthy (1919–2003) Hungarian linguist and systems scientist
Source: Systems Design of Education (1991), p. 110
The Learner
Béla H. Bánáthy (1919–2003) Hungarian linguist and systems scientist
Source: Systems Design of Education (1991), p. 110
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
Teacher
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
Context: Conventional "requirements" …are systems of prescriptions and proscriptions intended solely to limit the physical and intellectual movements of students — to "keep them in line, in sequence, in order," etc. They shift focus of attention from the learner (check [Goodwin] Watson again) to the "course." In the process, "requirements" violate virtually everything we know about learning because they comprise the matrix of an elaborate system of punishment, that in turn, comprise a threatening atmosphere in which positive learning cannot occur. The "requirements," indeed, force the teacher — and administrator — into the role of an authoritarian functionary whose primary task becomes that of enforcing the requirements rather than helping the learner to learn. The whole authority of the system is contingent upon the "requirements."
John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Introduction
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Gordon Pask (1928–1996) British psychologist
Pask (1976) "Conversational techniques in the study and practice of education", In: British Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 46, p. 24.
“The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
The Learner