ارشدان مدیریت آموزشی

Emphasis on Teaching
by Marshall Brain

The Importance of Questions

The facts and techniques that we teach are important, but they are also doomed. In 10 or 20 years much of what I teach today will be obsolete. For example, in an introductory computer class taught 20 years ago, I would have spent a great deal of time talking about punched cards. Today that knowledge is useless.

Although facts and techniques are important, they are not the main thrust of a university. What makes a university environment unique is its emphasis on, and bias towards, self-directed learning and research. Teachers try to convey to students the process of scholarship, so that the students can become problem-solvers and researchers themselves.