#2–We Are Failing Our Children in English Education
We are failing our children in English education. This limits their command of the language, their communication skills, and their learning potential. Somehow, it has escaped our attention. We used to understand that the fundamental features of public education were reading, writing, and arithmetic. These were and still are, after all, the minimum requirements for participation in society. A person can’t be expected to be self-sustaining, let alone a contributor to the general good, without these basics. We supplemented these priorities with “citizenship” in various guises, teaching the simple virtues of honesty, courtesy, promptness, patriotism, and faith. In fact, in […]