Ken Bain

“Sure, they became frustrated with students at times and occasionally displayed impatience, but because they were willing to face the failures of…

— Ken Bain

“Donald Saari uses a combination of stories and questions to challenge students to think critically about calculus. “When I finish this process,”…

— Ken Bain

“Simply put, the best teachers believe that learning involves both personal and intellectual development and that neither the ability to think nor…

— Ken Bain

“In short, we much struggle with the meaning of learning within our discipline and how best to cultivate and recognize it. For…

— Ken Bain

“In so many introductory science classes, the chemist [Dudley Herschbach] observed, students encounter what they see as "a frozen body of dogma"…

— Ken Bain

“The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.”

— Ken Bain

“Steele found, for example, that if he could convince women who took difficult mathematics examinations that everyone connected with the test assumed…

— Ken Bain

“To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when…

— Ken Bain

“When I interviewed one of the mathematicians in the study, he asked me if I knew how to define a function. I…

— Ken Bain

“Young children who constantly hear “person” praise (“you’re so smart to do this well”) as opposed to “task” praise (“you did that…

— Ken Bain