Learning By Teaching - History

History

Seneca the Younger told in his letters to Lucilius that we are learning if we teach (epistulae morales I, 7, 8): docendo discimus (lat.: "by teaching we are learning"). At all times in the history of schooling there have been phases where students were mobilized to teach their peers. Frequently, this was to reduce the number of teachers needed, so one teacher could instruct 200 students. However, since the end of the 19th century, a number of didactic-pedagogic reasons for student teaching have been put forward.

Vygotsky said in the book Adolescent development for educators that for children, to solve problems with peers is very important because when they work together should achieve some mutual process and solution comprehension.

Children can influence their mutual cognitive development when they say or do something that conflicts with the thought of another child.