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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 microtodd on Thursday October 30 2014, @12:36PM
I must respectfully disagree. As a human being who is constantly trying to be nice to other people, and become a better person, I want to learn how to raise and teach my kids, mentor other co-workers, and so forth. Reading about other people's favorite teachers, and more importantly, why they are their favorite teachers, is very insightful and interesting to me.
But then again, I try to sincerely care about other people, listen to them, and learn from it.