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Thursday, 20 April 2006

One-size-fits-all education doesn't fit dyslexics

As today's study today in the New Zealand Herald has perhaps reinforced, it’s not that dyslexics can’t read, it’s just that they read and learn differently to other students. There's only one real problem with that: in the inflexible state system dyslexic children are required to learn by the one-size fits-all system in which children will either fit, or fail.

So it’s not that so many young dyslexics fail in New Zealand schools, it’s that the state’s factory schools are failing them. The well-known motto of successful teachers of dyslexics is instructive: “If I don't learn the way you teach me, teach me the way I learn." That’s something a factory schooling system can never allow. Instead, high-achieving dyslexics of the past such as Leonardo da Vinci and Einstein would simply fall through the cracks, just as too many of them are now.

LINKS: Auckland research breakthrough throws light on dyslexia – NZ Herald

How to teach people with dyslexia – Bright solutions for dyslexia


TAGS: Education, Politics-NZ

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous21 Apr 2006, 08:15:00

    Another consequence of the failure to adequately teach dyslexics is a high crime rate.

    Dyslexia affects mainly boys, they fail to achieve in school, become frustrated angry and demoralised, can't find employment on leaving school and turn to crime. You don't need to read to burgle a house or steal a car.

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