Liz Greenbaum
Longfellow
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Anderson & Turpin wrote:
The point I've been trying to make is that the three R's should come first,WM: This is my point of disagreement. The 3 Rs, yes, and the arts. Kindergartners and pre-kindergartners don't get much science, history, or civics. The arts are great ways of addressing arithmetic (so are the odds at the race track, the way I learned), they also address hand-eye coordination, and better still, hand-eye-mind coordination. Listen to a four year old sing; it takes a while to hear and have the voice repeat a sound, it takes even longer to repeat a series of sounds.
before the arts, before science, before history and civics. ...
The most important part of this discussion is that, even in broke times, we cheat ourselves, the world, and the species when we cheat the children.
WizardMarks, Central
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