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Single Idea 5150

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

Full Idea

Intellectual virtue owes both its inception and its growth chiefly to instruction, and so needs time and experience; moral goodness, on the other hand, is the result of habit.

Gist of Idea

Intellectual virtue arises from instruction (and takes time), whereas moral virtue result from habit

Source

Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1103a15)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.91

A Reaction

If one adds to this his idea of practical reason as the intellectual virtue that makes the moral virtues possible, one has a good formula for running a school. The formula: 1) instruction about theory, 2) practical experience, 3) drilling good habits.

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]