“Teachable moment” is such a common phrase in education that it may be surprising to learn that the concept was actually invented by someone and isn’t Ancient Folk Wisdom. The phrase was coined by Robert Havighurst in 1952. It refers to the moment when the opportunity to teach something coincides with the student’s developmental readiness to learn it and
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