Teaching our Youth

Teaching our Youth

We educate our youth the same way we did 100 years ago.

Why?

We have made huge progress in understanding cognitive development in children. This should lead our educators to a better, more effective way to teach our youth. Nevertheless, our educators typically ignore the field of psychology and continue to teach in the same old tired way.

The first thing we need to teach children is not math, or history, or arithmetic. We must start by teaching children to communicate! They need to learn to read, write, and speak! They must not only know how to listen but to communicate their own knowledge back to the teacher.

How can we expect to teach anything else until a child is able to communicate effectively.

1	We start with the alphabet.
2	We teach them to read.
3	We teach them to write.
4	We teach then to put their ideas and thoughts into words --public speaking.

Now we can begin to teach them arithmetic. Now we can begin to teach them creative writing, history, social studies, and science.

This table shows general recommendations for curriculum by age and grade.

Age by December 31st	Grade	Subjects
Four	Kindergarten	Alphabet, Numbers and Reading
Five	1	Reading, Writing and Speaking
Six	2	Reading, Writing and Public Speaking
Seven	3	Arithmetic and Creative Writing
Eight	4	Geography, Arithmetic, Creative Writing, Public Speaking
Nine	5	Social Studies, Geography, Mathematics and Science
Ten	6	All of the above at more advanced levels