For the past couple of generations, we have “taught” history without those boring dates; and writing without that boring old grammar or spelling; and arithmetic without those boring old multiplication table; and because teachers have forgotten how easy it is to ‘memorize’ anything (this is the specialty of the very young), well, why have children do that boring old ‘memorization.’ Yep, it is all so BORING,all that boring old stuff. Better to haul out the crayons and paper and calculators… and learn to “think,” and ENJOY LEARNING.

I have by the way, tried to tutor high school students for that last mad dash to the final exams in algebra… and do you know, if you don’t understand RIGHT AWAY, that the factors of ’48′ are 6 and 8 and 12, etc… you cannot factor a quadratic equation????

Do you know that if you can’t tell the difference between Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, and that they lived some 250 years apart in time… you cannot understand history???? You cannot understand the very simple FACT that Times Change!!!!

But “educators” know that it isn’t important that a teacher ‘know’ anything’, it is sufficient that he know ‘how to teach.’ You know, that pedagogical thingy.