teaching to think
Teaching to Think For many years,there has existed a misconception of what education really is. Teachers and learners used to think that educating was just a mere transfer of knowledge,a process in which students should repeat and learn by root the contents given by the educators. ... Let’s take the example of language teaching. While old teaching methods, such as the Grammar Translation Method, had as a goal the learning of grammar rules and vocabulary that needed to be learnt by heart, the 20th century humanistic methods aim to the language of real communication.