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The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

Noam Chomsky
Education, Teaching, Reading

As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

Noam Chomsky
Teacher, Teaching, Curiosity
Noam Chomsky (1988). “Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures”, p.135, MIT Press

The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow and it's something that you're not interested in, that's just the opposite of education. It's also harming teaching, because the teachers are evaluated by the results of the test.

Noam Chomsky
Teacher, Teaching, Ideas

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

Noam Chomsky
Teaching, Learned Person, United States
Source: www.counterpunch.org

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Noam Chomsky
Teaching, Years, Today

We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

Noam Chomsky
Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher
Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.61, South End Press

Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about the society, and schools couldn't survive very long if they did that.

Noam Chomsky
Real, Teaching, School
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (1992). “Chronicles of dissent”

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