"She told them to do up their ties and sit up straight, and for years tried to make her lessons “fun,” according to educational guidelines. Fun, she noticed, had crowded out learning. Vocational subjects were used as a dumping ground for kids from poor families, whom nobody expected much from. She would sit in on lessons at the country's top private schools and wonder why only the privileged children had much expected of them. The lack of skills among some kids who graduated from state schools was shocking."
Charlotte Mason, 1900?
No. Katharine Birbalsingh, 2012. (link to Globe and Mail article by Elizabeth Renzetti)
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