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Greatest Teachers

posted by n1 on Thursday October 30 2014, @01:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the student-of-life dept.

mendax writes:

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?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @02:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @02:47AM (#111419)

    When a student asks a question, a good teacher tries to see the student's POV rather than firing off a canned answer. Why did s/he ask that? If they're confused, then something needs to be clarified. If they're misguided, then maybe the answer should take the form of "OK, suppose we did that. Now look..."