Visioning 2026 Blog

The article reference listed below really gets you to think about how our education should change. Julie Pfeil has it right, we just need to spend time with children and get them to perform (work hard at learning), especially those that are having learning problems.
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8675317

Not everyone's a genius, but don't say so in front of the children

BY the time Laszlo Polgar's first baby was born in 1969 he already had firm views on child-rearing. An eccentric citizen of communist Hungary, he had written a book called “Bring up Genius!” and one of his favourite sayings was “Geniuses are made, not born”.

An expert on the theory of chess, he proceeded to teach little Zsuzsa at home, spending up to ten hours a day on the game. Two more daughters were similarly hot-housed. All three obliged their father by becoming world-class players. The youngest, Judit, is currently ranked 13th in the world, and is by far the best female chess player of all time.