How to Bring Back Traditional Education

The American Thinker ^ | April 16, 2015 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[Grampa Dave]

"Parents have to understand the teachers union are a power with little interest in education."

"Schools do not fail. They succeed. Children always learn in school. Always and every day. When their rare and tiny compositions are "rated holistically" without regard for separate "aspects" like spelling, punctuation, capitalization, or even organization, they learn. They learn that mistakes bring no consequences."

Richard Mitchel, "The Graves of Academe"

[A CA Guy]

Take the union out of the Teachers Union and you may get the teachers back.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

The best thing I read about French elementary schools is that the children in first grade have to memorize a new poem every week. What an amazing concept. Wouldn’t matter if they were little rinky-dink nursery rhymes. Every poem teaches a lot of lessons.

Conversely, I suspect many children here never have to memorize a poem.