In fairness, the article is entitled, "How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses"
It doesn't say something like, "How a Radical New Teaching Method Will Make All Children Geniuses".
Personally, I think that your dissenting opinion (and its bag of implications) fosters mediocrity in education that hurts the kids on the lower end of the learning curve almost as much as it hurts the kids on the upper end... maybe more so.
i am all for identifying outliers (both on the upper and lower end of the spectrum) and getting them out of the regular system.
you're a genius? off to genius school.
you're just not capable of keeping up with the progress of the class? off to special ed, where the pace is better for you.
different countries approach these things differently, but identifying high and low potentials is proving to be really hard as the symptoms sometimes overlap (boredom).
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In fairness, the article is entitled, "How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses"
It doesn't say something like, "How a Radical New Teaching Method Will Make All Children Geniuses".
Personally, I think that your dissenting opinion (and its bag of implications) fosters mediocrity in education that hurts the kids on the lower end of the learning curve almost as much as it hurts the kids on the upper end... maybe more so.
i am all for identifying outliers (both on the upper and lower end of the spectrum) and getting them out of the regular system.
you're a genius? off to genius school. you're just not capable of keeping up with the progress of the class? off to special ed, where the pace is better for you.
different countries approach these things differently, but identifying high and low potentials is proving to be really hard as the symptoms sometimes overlap (boredom).