Learning To Read
Sir, —I should like to see teachers forget all this nonsense about “reading readiness” and “social promotion,” and just get to work and teach. Children should move to the next class when they have reached the level of attainment at which they can cope with the work of that class. As a general rule, a child’s social development keeps pace with his intellectual development. In these days, when the intellectually handicapped children “have never had it so good” and while dull to average children are pretty well catered for, the really bright child seems to have all his natural ability smothered and his initiative destroyed by this curse of “social promotion.” I would like to know what, if anything, is being done for children of superior intelligence, or does New Zealand intend to produce no geniuses in the next 10 or 20 years if she can help it?— Yours, etc., INFORMATION PLEASE. April 15, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30419, 18 April 1964, Page 12
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