Success by 6
I rarely watch TV, especially the news but on this beautiful, rainy day I chose to fold clothes while watching TV. The only thing on at six on a Saturday is the news, and always up to learn more, I watched.

Tonight, Global featured Success by 6 in which a teacher is quoted to say that a child who enters school without a fair amount of "knowledge" like knowing colours, numbers, letters will start behind and never catch up. I immediately thought of the many geniuses who were thought mentally retarded in their day because of their developmental delays like Albert Einstein, and knew that the ruler this teacher used was far from fair. It is true that a child who doesn't know what the system deems important and enters conventional school will likely not catch up to the systems' paradyms. Thus reducing that student to being behind... but where does that leave the many, predominantly males because of their developmental aptitudes which are unique to them, who are not ready to be pushed through the system? We are only barely understanding how the mind works and yet pretend to know how to "educate" by pushing earlier and earlier readiness despite what we have learned thus far. I truly hope that when my childrens' children are ready that the current professionals will have a much better grasp of how children learn than current wisdom dictates.