Who Will Benefit From National Education Standards? - Room for Debate

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How about mastery? We can do it with arithmetic, English, plane geometry, trig and rhetoric. These and similar closed skill sets can taught in finite time. The sciences can be introduced as can literature, drama and music.

Restart.

Education is a beginning not an end. A standard sets an endpoint which is not a desired result. If we can teach learning, the process, that will be both a triumph and a reward. Rote learning is best done in early childhood. Memory works more easily in our early years. When the words are in place the underlying logic is easily triggered.