Health & Education

SCHOOLS: Constant practice needed to acquire basic skills*

By Elizabeth Clarke / September 15, 2012

I have often written about the need to return to teaching basic information. One part of basic teaching that has been done away with is rote learning. Before clever adults think “B-O-R-I-N-G”, let’s consider how necessary repetition is.
One of the most informative books I have read is Paul H. Mussen, John J. Conger, Jerome Kagan and Aletha C. Huston’s Child Development and Personality (New York, Harper & Row, 6th edition, 1984).
The authors state that &ldquo…

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