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NPR is starting off a series titled "50 Great Teachers" and is starting with Socrates:
We're starting this celebration of teaching with Socrates, the superstar teacher of the ancient world. He was sentenced to death more than 2,400 years ago for "impiety" and "corrupting" the minds of the youth of Athens.
But Socrates' ideas helped form the foundation of Western philosophy and the scientific method of inquiry. And his question-and-dialogue-based teaching style lives on in many classrooms as the Socratic method.
Most of us have been influenced by our teachers, and some of them may have even been great ones even if, unlike Socrates, they toiled in anonymity. So, I ask this question: Who were (or are) your greatest teachers, why, and what did you learn from them that made them so great?
(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday October 30 2014, @01:50AM
Some of my "greatest" teachers are really bad. They are so bad that I decided to learn by myself and sometimes that journey is better than one where someone teaches you. Perhaps that is why some of the teachers of the greatest minds remain in anonymity.
Einstein failed at school. Maybe its not him but his teacher.
I come from a generation and culture where the teacher is always right and when a kid does bad at school it is the kid, not the teacher or the school. How stupid is that?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @03:31PM
Not stupid at all. The greatest thing a school can teach is how to deal with injustice. It's one of the hardest lessons in life to learn: when to be upset, when to let things go, when to fight the good fight. Learning how to deal well with unjust teachers is a great lesson, if you can pass it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 31 2014, @01:45AM
The greatest thing a school can teach is how to deal with injustice.
And it's also the worst thing a school can teach. I have to wonder how many little tyrants and boot lickers got their start in a brutal, authoritarian school?