Posted on 02/03/2010 3:51:04 PM PST by khnyny
That’s not always true. I completed an education degree and found that the requirements for the education students in English were higher than the general English majors, as they should be. And with one exception, all of my education courses were excellent.
That sounds like an excellent program. What is it?
All of education today is stressing higher-order thinking. Personally, I think the two lower steps of Bloom’s Taxonomy, knowledge and comprehension, are critical and at points, actually use skills educators consider low and too often insignificant. For example, I consider summarizing, listed in comprehension, a skill that uses more higher-order thinking than it’s given credit for. Unfortunately, teachers are being taught higher-order thinking “good”, lower-order thinking “bad.” But without the foundation of knowledge and comprehension, children aren’t able to move to the higher levels which they mostly aren’t ready for until they’re older anyway.
One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Jefferson targets the result better than any words of mine could:
“There is a certain period of life, say from eight to fifteen or sixteen years of age, when the mind, like the body, is not yet firm enough for laborious and close operations. If applied to such, it falls an early victim to premature exertion; exhibiting indeed at first, in these young and tender subjects, the flattering appearance of their being men while they are yet children, but ending in reducing them to be children when they should be men.”
Right Start Math at www.alabacus.com .
Reagan promissed to get rid of Education, Energy, and HHS
It’s pretty straight forward: All these issues exist because the government is setting the curriculum. Right there is the problem. What curriculum the government setting is a secondary problem. Give the kids vouchers, and let the parents choose what schools they want to send them to based upon what those schools each offer.
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