One of my favourite economists offers some good advice:"What is magical about research is the discovery it engenders. There is that pleasurable rush of feeling when the first results of a new experiment come in and you have started to learn something that no one else yet knows. Then you realize that this is also what meaningful teaching must be about: discovering, along with your students, things that you did not know before: making the unknown known; realizing that most of the action and the excitement is in the chase, and in the new questions that emerge along with the answers. Your learning is revealed in the fact that the new questions could not have been asked before. Libraries and your computer may record much of this activity, but most of it we learn from watching and interacting with others and by practicing an art, whether it is literature, economics, anthropology or physics."
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:46:04 +0000
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