Education Quote by Albert Bandura

There is a quiet provocation tucked into Bandura's line: the students learned more not because the system worked, but because the system was strained. By pointing to "over worked teachers", he isn't taking a cheap shot at educators; he's naming a structural reality that forces learning to migrate. When instruction is thin, students either drift or improvise. Bandura is interested in the improvise part.

The intent reads like a small autobiographical truth that doubles as theory. In Bandura's world, people aren't empty containers waiting to be filled; they're agents who watch, model, test, and adapt. If a teacher is exhausted or spread too wide, the classroom loses some of its choreography. That void can create space for peer teaching, self-directed practice, and the trial-and-error that makes knowledge stick. The subtext: competence often emerges from necessity, not from perfectly designed curricula.

"Very often" matters. He avoids the romantic myth of the scrappy underdog student who always outlearns authority. He's describing a recurring pattern, not a miracle: in certain conditions, learners become their own instructors. The comparison to teachers is also strategically uncomfortable. It hints at a cultural contradiction: we demand high performance from students while under-resourcing the adults tasked with guiding them, then act surprised when learning becomes uneven, privatized, and dependent on who has the time and confidence to self-teach.

Read in context of Bandura's broader work on observational learning and self-efficacy, the line becomes less complaint than diagnosis: overloaded institutions can accidentally produce independent learners, but at a cost - and not everyone gets to pay it.