教育类名言(英语版).doc

教育类名人名言 1. We cannot really teach a language; we can only create conditions under which it will develop in the mind in its own way. -WON HUMBOLDT, 1836, as paraphrased in Noam Chomsky, 1965,P. 51 2. To teach is to be full of hope. -LARRY CUBAN, 1989, P. 2493. As fashions in language teaching come and go, the teacher in the classroom needs reassurance that there is some bedrock beneath the shifting sands. Once solidly founded on the bedrock, like the sea anemone, the teacher can sway to the rhythms of any tides or currents, without the trauma of being swept away purposelessly.-WILGA RIVERS, 1992, P.3734. The importance of interaction is not simply that it creates learning opportunities; it is that it constitutes learning itself.-DICK ALLWRIGHT, 1984, P. 95. Learners must no longer sit there and expect to be taught; teachers must no longer stand up there teaching all the time. Teachers have to learn to let go and learners have to learn to take hold.-BRIAN PAGE, 1992, P 846 .give free play to those creative principles that humans bring to the process of language learning(and) create a rich linguistic environment for the intuitive heuristics that the normal human being automatically possesses.-NOAM CHOMSKY, 1970, P. 1087. Language takes place in social contexts and makes connections with the realities that make up those contexts.-HALLIDAY AND HASAN, 1976, P. 3058. . We want to urge teachers to make schooling equally strange for all students and thus to expand the ways of thinking, knowing and expressing knowledge of all students through incorporating many cultural tendencies.-SHIRLEY BRIE HEATH AND LESLIE MANGIOLA, 1991, P. 379. We teach who we are. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self knowledge- and knowing my