Education
“A child miseducated is a child lost” - John F. Kennedy
On the Teaching of Slow
Students
In 1953 a young schoolteacher named Joan
Dunn wrote a book about her experiences in Brooklyn’s public
school system. I think this is one of the most profound
passages ever written about education, especially the last
sentence: "The time that should have been devoted to school
work in reading, writing, thinking, and speaking is given
over to chatter. Nobody knows this better than the children.
They want to be taught step by step, so that they can see
their progress. The duller they are, the more important and
immediate is this need."
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