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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @03:27PM
Sounds like a poor role model and very immature.
Nope, just an asshole .
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 31 2014, @01:42AM
Sounds like a poor role model and very immature.
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Nope, just an asshole .
This isn't finishing school. What makes great teachers is often very counterintuitive.