I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn't teach them anymore because it wasn't fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn't have the knowledge to withhold. Sebastian Faulks
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This quotation by J. E. Gordon, M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., F.F.A., F.R.C.N., F.N.I., F.D.N (1864-1935) is about the American education system in the 20th century and how it changed from trusting children to withholding information because not all children could handle it all at once, especially at higher levels of education where material was more complex than in early elementary schools, where knowledge was more readily available for certain children to grasp without having to be taught explicitly by the teacher because the teacher trusted that children would be able to understand it themselves by simply being taught things that they needed to know without having to be spoonfed information just to pass tests or exams at university level or higher education level which depended on memorizing facts and memorizing them correctly as a way of passing a test or a piece of a test without knowing why or how that knowledge was required for a particular piece of a test or exam as opposed to being taught the reasons behind the knowledge being tested on as well as being taught how to use that knowledge instead of being tested on their ability to remember it as well as having been taught how to apply that knowledge as well as being taught how it can be used instead of being tested on their ability to remember specific facts associated with those facts as well as being taught how those facts fit into a bigger picture so they can be applied correctly so they become more knowledgeable and ultimately, passed a test or exam successfully with confidence that what they have learned will allow them to perform at their highest potential and pass a test or exam successfully with confidence that what they have learned will allow them to perform at their highest potential and succeed in life, because if they don't learn something, they won't know how it can be used which will prevent them from becoming successful in life and ultimately pass a test or an exam successfully with confidence that what they have learned will allow them to perform at their highest potential and succeed in life, because if they don't learn something, they won't know how it can be used which will prevent them from becoming successful in life and ultimately fail and fail and fail and fail and ultimately fail and fail and fail and eventually fail and fail and eventually fail and eventually fail and eventually fail because if you don't know something then you won't be able put it into practice which will

Source: A Week In December

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