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What is the meaning of those who know do those that understand Teach?
Or as Aristotle put it so beautifully: “Those that know do, those that understand teach”. We would be teachers, not just for knowledge but for wisdom. This statement suggests that people who have failed or would be failures in the world outside of academia end up as teachers.
Who said those who know do those who understand Teach?
Aristotle
Those that understand, teach.” – Aristotle.
Why teaching is the highest form of understanding?
It is teaching as the representation of the ideas of a field in ways which are comprehensible to and which will touch the souls as well as the minds of the students. Viewed this way, effective teaching becomes the highest form of understanding.
How is knowing different from understanding?
“Knowing” and “understanding” are related concepts, but they’re not the same. Each is a distinct mental state involving cognitive grasp: Knowing is static, referring to discrete facts, while understanding is active, describing the ability to analyze and place those facts in context to form a big picture.
Who said those who can’t teach?
George Bernard Shaw’s
‘Those who can’t do, teach’ is a truncation of the line ‘Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach’ from George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 stage play Man and Superman. Over a century later, and the derogatory phrase oft slung at educators stubbornly persists.
What is the relationship between understanding and knowing?
‘Knowing’ is the expertise and skill acquired by an individual from his experiences and education while ‘understanding’ is a psychological process that requires an individual to think and use concepts to deal with a person, object, message, or situation.
Who said those who can’t do teach and those who can’t teach teach gym?
And those who can’t teach, teach gym”? I recently heard Woody Allen’s riff on the famous line in George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ via a friend who works in a secondary school, deep in London’s leafy suburbia.