Reply #75: Proven methods of the past

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were abandoned. When I was five years old I was sent to the first grade as there was no kindergarten. My wife attended first grade at six years old. It appears to us that teaching was more effective in those days-1960. For some reason those bygone teaching methods were abandoned in favor of 'new and improved' methods of teaching that were not as effective. It is telling that we were educated while not benefiting from kindergarten and pre-school yet today's students suffer from educational deficiencies. Something is very wrong. Today's teaching methods need to be examined with a critical eye.