And we wonder why China, India and South Korea are eating our lunch.
I went to a private boy’s school. 12 books every Summer, and test on them! Some of the I hated reading! Pilgrim’s Progress, etc. But I had to!
The schools are not helping these children.
I work with several extremely intelligent software developers who “do not read books”. Now, they probably read the equivalent of hundreds of pages every day online and in the course of their duties, but they are adamant that they don’t read books.
It’s interesting to consider how many of the upcoming generations will trend this way and what that means to skills such as storytelling.
Pathetic.
Aside from the physical sciences, math and engineering, what’s the use of these kindergartens? More of the same?
When does learning become learning again?
Well, at least our high school graduates are virgins of some type.
I guess that makes me a ‘book slut’. :\
many of them are passed through college without ever learning how to open a book there, either
they enter as Book virgins
they graduate as Book virgins
then they can go directly to welfare for the rest of their lives
ps..
if they do learn how to open a book at college,
many times its something like “Alinsky political Action” or “Mao’s Little Red Book”
or “Transgender Liberation Power Building”
in other words, they’re still unemployable (and ignorant) for, likely, the rest of their lives
what a fraud so much of our American educational system really is, its a ripoff of our youth
Some schools have parents mad because their child has ‘too much homework’. The school board won’t defend the curriculum, lest a parent be made to feel ignorant. So the teacher is told to ‘adjust the requirements’. Unspoken is the end of the request ‘If you want to keep your job”.
Sol wept.
Kids can't read, they can't write or read cursive.
They can't add and they can't perform at a job.
But they need safe spaces...and to know how to avoid things that melt snowflakes.
This is the end of government-controlled education.
Good bye...let it die.
This seems somehow appropriate to this thread:
Aristophanes: “Youth ages, Immaturity outgrown, Ignorance educated, Drunkenness sobered, But stupid….. Stupid lasts forever.”
My parents read books, I read books (and have written a few) and my adult kids read books. I read to them from the time they were very very young.
Last Christmas, my daughter gave my son a copy of a children’s book they had loved 40 years ago. And of course, they both got books from me.
Can’t imagine life without books.
I read books to my two daughters every night.
Now they are adults and always have to have a book with them.
There was a PSA some years ago - read to your children. I was reading to my children long before that, but maybe we should have that PSA again.
I turned in over 50 book reports in the 6th grade (1963). There’s nothing much better than a good book, a quiet room and a comfortable overstuffed chair. The dog and cat are welcome if they behave.
The first book my dad let me borrow was Ender’s War when I was 11; it was Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead in one binding.
I cannot help but wonder how many members of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) are also members of the National Education Association (NEA) or American Federation of Teachers (AFT)? Add to that the ‘scholarship’ that produces the education college training that has so destroyed the previous high capability of American Schools. NAS may have to look into the mirror for answers.