„Many instructional arrangements seem “contrived”, but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher’s function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious.It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.“

— B.F. Skinner

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„It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious.“
— B.F. Skinner
„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
„He was extraordinary, a genius; there’s no doubt about it. But his teaching was not for everyone. Different students need different teachers and different teachers find different students. It’s very strange and fascinating.“
— B.K.S. Iyengar
„True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis