EDUC 809 – Portfolio Presentation

1. EDUC 809 – Portfolio Presentation Carl Forde - cjf@sfu.ca

2. That took the place of a monologue The dialogue...

3. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin

4. Learning is not a spectator sport--it is an active, not a passive, enterprise. Accordingly, a learning environment must invite, even demand, the active engagement of the student. -- D. Blocher

5. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward

6. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. -- Saint Francis de Sales

7. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. -- Renee Descartes

8. We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is. -- Mark Vonnegut

9. The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. -- Edwin Schlossberg

10. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes

11. There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table. It reminded him how he had needed A place to go to in his own direction, How he had recomposed the pines, Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds, For the outlook that would be right, Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion: The exact rock where his inexactness Would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged, Where he could lie and, gazing down at the sea, Recognize his unique and solitary home.