Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible

“Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: ‘Could you explain this step again? How did you… ?”

Mark Lepper

MORE READERS LOVE QUOTES!

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”

“There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.”

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.“

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