Building a Basis for Education

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona

If telling were the same as teaching, we'd all be so smart we could hardly stand it.

There is no question that what we teach is often different from what we tell.   Sometimes we teach the beauty and importance of a subject as well as the substance of it.  Sometimes, though, we teach people to dislike, and then to avoid the very subject we are teaching them about.

Developing attitude toward learning is a universal goal of instruction - the intent is to send students away from instruction with at least as favorable an attitude toward the subjects taught as they had when they first arrived.  It is about the conditions that influence this attitude, about how to recognize it, and about how to evaluate it.

-Developing Attitude Toward Learning. By Robert F. Mager

Eight Provisions of the Land Grant Act (Morril Act of 1862)

Educational Excellence: A Vision Beyond Tradition

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This website was last updated on Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:43 AM.  This is version 1.1.  If you have any questions about this site, please email ddavies@ag.arizona.edu.  If you have any questions about the course, please email Dr. James Knight at jknight@ag.arizona.edu.