The Unity of Teaching and Learning (1919)

Abstract

Today people call those who teach in schools teachers, and they call what they do and they call the methods they use methods, as though teachers are people who do nothing but teach the students a little book learning. Apart from teaching, they seemingly have no other ability; apart from what is in books, they have nothing else to teach; and the students in this kind of school, apart from receiving instruction, have no other assignments. Teachers only concern themselves with teaching, and students only concern themselves with receiving instruction, as though the business of learning could be completely transacted by the act of If we are talking about names, such schools are of course institutions of but if we are discussing the reality, they are more like institutions of teaching. This is because we have emphasized teaching too much. Without knowing it, we have caused teaching to become separated from learning, though learning and teaching really cannot be s...