Thomas Sowell On The Truth Behind School Success

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[vandaliailustracionydiseno]

Loved it. I am a secondary school teacher at Spain. Our politicians keep pushing these devastating methods, and the worst the kids perform through the years, the deeper they go with this dogmas.

[elimooremusic]

Thank-you for your content. I've taken up a lot of teaching in the last year and Thomas Sowell is one of the most trustworthy and intelligent voices I want to hear from about education

[ConsueloCastanuela]

My sister left teaching after one year after she was chastised for going over wrong answers after a test...this was years ago. She was told there was no time for review.

[davidcraig]

I remember phonics in 2nd grade and how much I hated sitting there making noises to match the words I was seeing. Without Phonics, I could never have won my blue ribbon in spelling, and I would have had to struggle through every book making it a painful chore, rather than the rich delight those who can read possess. I also knew that if I could do it, so could almost anybody.

[GamaSennin]

School. Choice. It's not the whole answer, but we MUST let the money follow the families. Fund students, not systems, as Corey DeAngelis would say.

[standTrueNorthStrongandFree]

BRAVO! ..to you Mr. Sowell, and Patreon, and every successful and CARING educator cited. What a wonderful, Parent & Educator enlightening and inspiring essay.

[ConsueloCastanuela]

I was 7 years old, attended Catholic school, phonics was taught. Weekly trips to library. Top of our classes year one. No bilingual Ed around then. Get rid of it.

[jameswilliamjohnson]

It's obvious. Since went liberal in the 1970s, we have regressed yet we are spending more per pupil. Yet we continue in the same path year after year in the face of failure. Because of the power of the teacher's unions.

[jimd]

Thank you again. Great programs, always informative

[gregoryhall]

Just as we have moved to “evidence based” approach to research in and practice of medicine—we should take the same stringent approach to education. This means not relying on dogma of intellectuals/thinkers in the leadership positions of school districts but should be focused on identifying whatever methods being used in successful school are being used and adapting them—and then studying the results and judging them by student performance. It has to be outcome based and driven by hard data.

[kathygum]

Enlightening. Always so from Mr. Sowell.

[sicat]

This hits too close to home. I'm a public school teacher teaching math. Our curriculum and all the supplied learning materials are designed by very smart individuals only for the very smart learners. The ideals of our educational system is far too detached from what is actually happening in the ground. So I embraced reality, went back to basics, had relatively great results, but got condemned incompetent because the way I did it is seen as old-fashioned traditional teaching.

[anng.]

The approach that divides students into small groups to "instruct" themselves, with teachers hanging around only to answer an occasional question, also teaches kids to distrust and disrespect adults.

[crewcrewdin]

Thank you peace and love to you and yours.

[briank]

I’m 42 and terror that I would feel being sent to my dads place of work for misbehaving would be enough. I like the idea as someone that didn’t excel in English, I was put in the regular classes and continued to struggle as half the time the teachers were busy disciplining the trouble makers and didn’t learn much in class. The other advanced classes I bearly needed to do any studying as class was enough.

[TheGiganticIntellect]

I'm a South African and i admire sowell's tool of analysis 👌government's way of doing things is genuinely not working

[theodoremccoll]

Absolutely true. I taught Physics, . I had one year, not the lifetimes of Galileo, Newton and Faraday. I taught hard until the last four weeks and did the group discovery stuff after the students had some background to draw from.

[tywhite]

Amazing, who would have thought that work would Work.

[stevenfrasier]

The French Quebecois government always tries to keep the poor English children down and claim to have a right to this because it helps to preserve the Quebecois culture. Long story short, both French and English people in general are suffering, as a result, to this day.

[gregkortbein]

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