anderscj · @anderscj
11th Feb 2011 from Twittelator Pro
"We act as if children were railroad trains running on a schedule...we say that if children are going to know so much when they go to college, then they have to know this at the end of this grade, and that at the end of that grade. If a child doesn't arrive at one of these intermediate stations when we think he should, we instantly assume that he is going to be late at the finish. But children are not railroad trains. They do not learn at an even rate. They learn in spurts, and the more interested they are in what they are learning, the faster these spurts are likely to be." John Holt