iety changes will have an ever lasting influence on the way people are taught.
Everyone talks these days about "quality education" for all. But quality education for every child, is an absurdity. Most parents, when they say to schools, "Give my kid a quality education," mean, "Do something to him that will get him ahead of all the other kids." In short, make him a winner. Not, a winner along with all the rest; that won't do him any good. They mean, make him a winner in a race where most kids lose...
When children of different social classes go to the same school, they are almost always divided into tracks. Wherever such tracks exist, studies show that they correlate almost perfectly with family income, the richest kids in the top tracks, the poorest in the bottom.
I think this creates alienation between the school and learners who don't fit into the social profile of what the school expects a good lea
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