When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early years of education.
The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.
I think I can straighten out our mess in education.
If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.
How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.
Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.
In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
We don’t get the quality of people going into teaching that other nations do…. When people go teacher bashing, they are making the problem worse.
