and remarkably simple, understand the nature of what you're teaching, and understand
the nature of the learner, so that you can bring the two together as easily and quickly as
possible.
Teachers and parents know that education is missing the mark.
The student's day is filled with worksheets and scripted lessons, with little regard to what is
begin taught, why it's being taught, or to whom it's being taught.
The harsh knowledge that what has been tried has failed, has been met with an embarrassing potpourri of eclecticism,
the inevitable result of the pendulum swing between Phonics and Whole Language, New Math and real math (the list goes on)
all combined with a troubling shift of blame to the student.
Essential Education is a reaction to these worrying times.
It is the simple, but rigourous notion that in educating a child, consider only the essence of what you want to teach - the
concepts, skills and information - and the essence (the nature) of the learner.