Category:Education

Citation on peer teaching

Theresa Williamson on The power of peer teaching

"Everybody knows the proverb about how it's better to teach a man to fish than just to give him a fish, but there's a step beyond that: it's better that a man's neighbor is the one teaching him to fish, his peer. If some expert swoops in from afar you miss half the value of the interaction because of the inequality in that relationship. But if it's his peer teaching him? Then the man is much more likely to offer something in return. You are much more likely to create a real sustainable relationship rather than just a new dependency."

- Theresa Williamson, Founder, Catalytic Communities (http://www.nextbillion.net/node/1723 )

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