The 12 Education MYTHS - Perdaily.com

The 12 Education MYTHS - Perdaily.com

The 12 Education MYTHS

by Leonard

Moments before a famous Shakespearean actor was to perform Hamlet to a packed house in New York, he dropped dead. The house manager solemnly went onstage and announced, "We are sorry to bring you this news, but our performance tonight has been canceled due to the untimely demise of our featured performer." From the back of the theater a voice cried out, "Give him some chicken soup!" Startled, the stage manager cleared his throat and replied, "I apologize if in my grief I have not made my solemn message clear. The man is deceased." Once again, but more emphatically the voice rang out, "Give him some chicken soup!" Having had about enough, the manager bellowed back, "Sir, the man is dead. Giving him chicken soup couldn't possibly help." To which the voice replied, "It couldn't hurt!"

Rather then design an academic program that specifically addresses the subjective needs of the student population, those in power propose ideas that are non-sequiturs that have no chance of success, because those in power know that successful public education means their demise and an end to the obscene waste that public education continues to incur throughout this country with no significant positive results. Most programs and reforms today accommodate to failure rather than address it.

Good public education requires a huge bureaucracy with many levels of administrators, counselor, coaches, and coordinators.

The fundamental function of education takes place between a teacher and a reasonable number of students. Everything else is just expensive window dressing. With the intelligent use of computers: databases and