There is a belief widely held across the Western world: Chinese students are schooled through rote, passive learning – and an educational system like this can only produce docile workers who lack ...
For decades, classrooms relied on rote memorisation, where students absorbed information without understanding its practical applications. But there is a quiet revolution underway. Schools in India ...
Higher percentage or higher grade is the sole goal of many students and the only expectation of many parents from their children. Indeed, good percentage is always a plus point, which adds to our ...
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Australian schoolchildren’s dismal performance on national and international tests could be swiftly remedied if schools introduced ...
I have been reading hundreds of books on education since I was working at the Educational Television Unit at the National Television in Sri Lanka, SLRC, later as the Secretary General of UNESCO under ...
If you enter a classroom in our country, you most likely will be invited by the monotonous hum of children repeating after ...
Masayuki Aihara's Oct. 29 letter, "Texts stand some in good stead," I believe, proved a lot of the points that Stewart Tennyson was trying to make in his Oct. 22 letter, "English teachers have work to ...
Education is evolving from rote memorization to experiential learning, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and real-world understanding beyond traditional classroom boundaries. Education ...
The Centre for Independent Studies has criticised universities for failing to train student teachers in the most effective ways to help children learn. “Myths must be busted to help build all teachers ...