Idea from: TESL - L
Metaphors for explaining the teacher/student relationship to learning.
Learning to drive, swim or type. Teachers can impart the knowledge...but you can't make a student learn to swim on dry land.
Barry Bakin wrote:
Suggest the analogy of throwing and catching a ball. The teacher can throw as many
balls at the student as he or she wishes but unless the student makes an
effort to hold out a hand and close fingers around the ball at the
moment of impact the likelihood of catching the ball is minimal. Notice
I didn't say impossible. It is of course possible that a carefully
thrown ball will land at a place on the body and not drop to the ground,
but not likely.
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