Books Quote by Saaif Alam

“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what…

— Derek Bok

I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic…

— Dean Spade

“Can critical thinking actually be taught? Decades of cognitive research point to a disappointing answer: not really. People who have sought to teach critical…

— Terry Marselle

“Thinking critically should be taught in the context of subject matter. The foregoing does not mean that teachers shouldn’t teach students to think critically—it…

— Terry Marselle

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which…

— Paulo Freire

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

— Samuel Johnson

“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures…

— Samuel Johnson

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do…

— Samuel Johnson

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You…

— Charlie Trotter

“...learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more…

— Brian McLaren

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

— Frances Osborne