pollyanna on Nostr: excerpts from the book "how children fail": "The question I have been trying to ...
excerpts from the book "how children fail":
"The question I have been trying to answer for many years is: Why don't they learn what we teach them? The answer I have come to boils down to this: Because we teach them--that is, try to control the contents of their minds."
"A few good principles to keep in mind:
(1) Children do not need to be "taught" in order to learn; they will learn a great deal, and probably learn best, without being taught.
(2) Children are enormously interested in our adult world and what we do there.
(3) Children learn best when the things they learn are embedded in a context of real Life, are part of what George Dennison, in The Lives of Children, called "the continuum of experience."
(4) Children learn best when their learning is connected with an immediate and serious purpose."
"The question I have been trying to answer for many years is: Why don't they learn what we teach them? The answer I have come to boils down to this: Because we teach them--that is, try to control the contents of their minds."
"A few good principles to keep in mind:
(1) Children do not need to be "taught" in order to learn; they will learn a great deal, and probably learn best, without being taught.
(2) Children are enormously interested in our adult world and what we do there.
(3) Children learn best when the things they learn are embedded in a context of real Life, are part of what George Dennison, in The Lives of Children, called "the continuum of experience."
(4) Children learn best when their learning is connected with an immediate and serious purpose."