Thread by @MethodologistID

Cramming students head with facts should not be the main activity in education.

What is necessary to be the focus of teacher is teaching students how to think (to identify, analyze, evaluate, and construct argument) and prepare them to be a "self-directed thinker and learner".

Cuitan di atas merupakan refleksi terhadap pidato Albert Einstein pada 15 Oktober 1931 di State University of New York (Universitas Negeri New York) di Albany dalam rangka peringatan 300 tahun pendidikan tinggi Amerika.

Tulisan-tulisan dan pidato-pidato Albert Einstein lainnya dapat diunduh dan dipelajari melalui tautan berikut:

namnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/292891…

Dalam buku "Einstein: His Life and Times", ada yang menarik mengenai pandangan Einstein terkait pendidikan.

Jadi, waktu Eintein ada di Amerika, Thomas Edison lagi bikin gaduh Amerika dengan opininya tentang the uselessness of college education.

Einstein merespon terhadap pernyataan bombastisnya si Edison:

“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. *

* The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”

(Halaman 185 dari buku "Einstein: His Life and Times" by Philipp Frank)

Buku "Einstein: His Life and Times"-nya bisa diunduh dan dipelajari melalui tautan berikut:

archive.org/details/einste…

Yang pelu digarisbawahi sepertinya bagian yang ini:

"... The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”