I
wanted to like this column but ended up just confused. Yes, children learn differently but surely we
have the same goals for most children:
sophisticated reading skills, competence in math, science, and
technology, and some knowledge of history, foreign languages, and literature. I’m not sure that simply overthrowing the
current educational system will get us there.
What
I would like to see is more study of students who are very competent, and
schools that are working well. What
experiences have the students had? What
are good schools doing? For example, I
was a high school English teacher for 37 years, and am very sure that advanced
reading skills are only acquired through wide, avid reading. All of my great students loved books and read
extensively.
I
also think that schools need to be funded and controlled locally. I think Winston Churchill’s comment about democracy fits education as
well: Schools controlled by a locally
elected school committee is the worst system of education except for everything
else.
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