How children fail

About this book

A series of informal memos describing how typical grade-school pedagogy suppresses a child's innate desire to learn, leaving the child frustrated, confused, and fearing failure.

Subjects

  • academic achievement
  • child
  • child psychology
  • dropouts
  • educación de niños
  • education
  • éducation
  • education, aims and objectives
  • educational psychology
  • éducation des enfants
  • education of children
  • enfants
  • failure (psychology)
  • grade repetition
  • history
  • kinderen
  • learning
  • mislukkingen
  • onderwijs
  • personal narratives
  • promotion (school)
  • psychology of learning
  • schulversagen
  • underachievers