“The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.”

“The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.”

Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician

“Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.”

John Updike book Couples

“Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.”

John Stuart Mill book On Liberty

“The reflective teacher makes the learners decide for themselves and ensures that the decision is sound and reasonable. He or she asks a lot of questions for the learners to carry out self-assessment.”

Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician

“Teachers have to be learners. They have to treat each new group of students as a different group, fresh and unknown. Teachers often perceive new students as being the same as those in the previous group and apply the same practice to them. If teachers are learners, they will study the new group of students in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses, then teach them accordingly.”

Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician

“Teachers should be able to help learners to efficiently communicate to other numerical ideas and to make connection with real-life problems in the areas chosen for their eventual career. Training only on subject matter is definitely not going to bring about this expertise. There must be more emphasis on coaching and facilitating techniques. In their normal practices, teachers must see very clearly where each individual learner stands on the learning continuum of that particular development, what problems and difficulties he or she is going to face and what lies ahead on that learning continuum to be walked by the learner. Teachers should be trained to be a master of how to help each and every learn to walk through the learning task. Going through the learning task is a necessary and essential aspect of teacher training but it is not sufficient to make them good and effective teachers.”

Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician

“In fostering a sense of success, teachers have to be responsive to the learners and create several self-assessment activities in learning.”

Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician

“[Guided reinvention is] striking a subtle balance between the freedom of inventing and the force of guiding, between allowing the learner to please himself and asking him to please the teacher. Moreover, the learner’s free choice is already restricted by the “re” of “reinvention”. The learner shall invent something that is new to him but well-known to the guide.”

Hans Freudenthal (1905–1990) Dutch mathematician

“Let the main object… to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.”

John Amos Comenius (1592–1670) Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer