Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and cl...assroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As I sit looking out of a window of the building I wish I did not have to write the instructional manual on the uses... of a new metal. I look down into the street and see people, each walking with an inner peace, And envy them--they are so far away from me! Not one of them has to worry about getting out this manual on scheduleLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt o...ur materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In spite of our worries to the contrary, children are still being born with the innate ability to learn spontaneously, and neither... they nor their parents need the sixteen-page instructional manual that came with a rattle ordered for our baby boy!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies lea...rn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »