| By the way, one of the things that beats me are those posters who go on about "critical thinking" as an objection to vouchers. First, critical thinking is not an issue in elementary grades, where children are naturally weak at conceptual thought. Second, critical thinking is a skill that is hard to teach under optimum circumstances, and which is mostly picked up by those of above average intellect. Third, it is idle to worry about critical thinking when it is largely taught through modeling, and few teachers are good models, and it takes a high degree of literacy to read those, like Plato or even Montaigne. Fourth, the purpose of vouchers primarily is to help at risk kids, who would be fortunate to learn spelling and geography, and who need to crawl before they can walk, and walk before they can run........ |
