Elna Cavendish July 24

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July 24 13

Comment; education in this country needs steroids and teeth! The values that it is based on are skewed due to a lack of spiritual context and content (I understood this to be non religious). The outcomes are therefore a focus on form (qualifications) above the growing and developing of young people’s moral fibre and human connectedness. This contributes to a fractured, non-caring and materialistic society which places the latest model handset higher than the well being of a neighbour.

Early learning needs to be done in mother tongue as this assists in the integrating of formative knowledge, reinforcing and growing local cultural heritage. Second languages [English] are essential and need to be developed at a slightly later stage [than formative], but developed until adequately literate before graduating.

She has a critical attitude toward the growing private schooling industry as possibly having vested interested in the public schooling remaining degraded, thus fueling need for more private education. Also a questioning at weather small classes and intense individual attention (teacher/pupil ratio) adequately prepares the learner for life, and tertiary education where lecture student ratio is vastly different.