If our education system’s purpose is to turn students into passive consumers and mindless followers, then it is doing better each year.
results would not show one-third of students “failing at” or “struggling with” literacy and numeracy. The operation would be a success.
Because of limited space, I’ll focus on literacy. The written word is undergoing an explosion of usage, thanks to digital devices and the preference for text over spoken conversation. More people are writing more words than at any time in history. Those students who are writing so prolifically are also in a state of revolution, IMHO, against those same fkn words. WTAF? IDK.Language is a living thing, and no rule should be immutable.
Most importantly, literacy has real-world power. When Greta Thunberg said “Blah blah blah” to world leaders at the Youth4Climate summit, she was speaking truth to power. Naomi Klein , in her brilliant 2023 book, wrote that the polarised forces that are eating up global politics share “a baseline war on words and meaning”.
I don’t know the answer to that, but it’s a reminder to question the assumptions we bring to any argument.
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