Teaching
The Koffler Scientific Reserve at Jokers Hill is a living classroom for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing university degrees in disciplines ranging from geography and biology to forestry and environmental science. Since it first opened for instruction in 2002, the Reserve has provided transformative educational experiences for thousands of students who have undertaken ecological investigations in its forests, fields and wetlands. Here, both outdoors and in the on-site laboratories, they have made the leap from learning about science to doing science. The Reserve plays a key role in the University of Toronto's mission to train the highly qualified, scientific professionals who will be asked to design Canada's environmental future.
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Famous quotes containing the word teaching:
“It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child’s interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)
“Like a prophet, you are possibly teaching us about the workings of the divine mind, but in the process you are ruining the human mind, dear friend.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“The most important part of teaching = to teach what it is to know.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)