Sunday I had an interesting conversation with a high school teacher from Mongolia. How this came about is a long story with which I shall not bore you. She is in her mid-30’s, married with 2 grade school children. He husband attends grad school at the University of Indiana. She teaches Russian in Mongolia. That’s like teaching English here. I think she probably teaches the children of the upper crust in her country.
Her big complaint as a teacher of high school kids is that nobody wants to read. Her students want to text their friends on their cell phones while they surf the Internet. That is the exact same complaint I hear from teachers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. In a sad way it is comforting that the problems we have with education in our country are similar to those all over the world. The concept that students here and there don’t understand is that those who read keep the electricity on. What do you do if the electricity goes out?
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