It is time to wake up and smell the coffee on the differentiated developmental needs of childhood and youth across its several stages. To respond is to not preempt, to describe is to stop prescribing and this is the frame of mind with we must feed the hungry infant and nurture the young mind and body.
To hatch the egg before its time, to starve the caterpillar or feed the pupa is not a sound nourishment plan to breed butterflies.
So it is with the learning path of children and youth which must follow its natural trajectory and rise to meet the physical and psychic needs of each stage of development.
It is important that we listen keenly and favour homegrown solutions over cut and paste imports and work to incubate, verify and deploy appropriate models to live love and learn. Or we choose to fail the mandate and spirit of the RTE.
The wind carries whispers of ‘our children’ and ‘their children’ and how the two will never meet. The voices of bigots use the same syntax everywhere.
www.learnatroots,org/ the learning path of children
www.learnatroots,org/ the learning path of children
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