This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
The lost boys
Richard Whitmire has an article the Lost Boys in the Wall Street Journal pointing out the discrimination against young women that takes place regularly as universities try to attain gender balance by admitting boys of lower academic standing... the result of under achieving and under motivated young men produced by our current model of education. Richard Whitmire is the author of a forthcoming book, Why Boys Fail.
Reminiscent of another well meaning admissions policy.
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