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Single Idea 2842

[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching ]

Full Idea

Men learn partly by habituation and partly by listening.

Gist of Idea

Men learn partly by habit, and partly by listening

Source

Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1332b10)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Sinclair,T.A. /Saunders,T. [Penguin 1992], p.430

A Reaction

Habit is almost an education of the body rather than of the mind, like a pianist making their fingers learn to play a piece.

The 19 ideas with the same theme [virtues and principles of good teaching]:

8151 Let your teacher be a god to you [Anon (Upan)]
1565 We learn language, and we don't know who teaches us it [Anon (Diss)]
4331 Education is channelling a child's feelings into the right course before it understands why [Plato]
250 The best way to educate the young is not to rebuke them, but to set a good example [Plato]
222 Only a great person can understand the essence of things, and an even greater person can teach it [Plato]
2153 Compulsory intellectual work never remains in the mind [Plato]
1638 Didactic education is hard work and achieves little [Plato]
5150 Intellectual virtue arises from instruction (and takes time), whereas moral virtue result from habit [Aristotle]
11241 Wise men aren't instructed; they instruct [Aristotle]
2842 Men learn partly by habit, and partly by listening [Aristotle]
13290 One joy of learning is making teaching possible [Seneca]
13322 Both teachers and pupils should aim at one thing - the improvement of the pupil [Seneca]
17226 The best use of talent is to teach other people to live rationally [Spinoza]
19957 Teaching is the best practice of the general virtue that leads us to love everyone [Montesquieu]
19580 If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis]
2889 One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche]
14834 Teachers only gather knowledge for their pupils, and can't be serious about themselves [Nietzsche]
2908 There is a need for educators who are themselves educated [Nietzsche]
3973 Without a teacher, the concept of 'getting things right or wrong' is meaningless [Davidson]