Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.
We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!