Studying the Art of Teaching

Abstract

Good teaching, as we have all heard, is an art. However, when people say this,
more often than not, they mean that good teaching is a talent, a natural ability,
something one is born with, a gift - an art; it is not a craft, developed over long hours of
careful and deliberate practice, not something that one can simply learn, from others
and certainly not from books, let alone investigation and research. Yet, clearly, so much
of art involves precisely the latter: practice, study, learning from others, investigation,
and research.