When I first heard about krokodil, and the horrific damage it does to addicts, I started thinking about the damage done to children by dysfunctional teaching methods.

You might think, isn’t that a stretch? The physical damage done by krokodil is so obvious and horrific, you might want to think it’s in a category by itself. Can this obvious physical damage be compared to the hidden cognitive damage done by bogus educational methods?

Well, I think this is the $64,000 question for education. Everyone should try to answer it.

If you wreck a child’s ability to read, or do basic math, you are rewiring the inside of that child’s brain. More exactly, you are ripping out good wiring and leaving a tangled mess.

This intellectual damage might not be horrible to the eye. But the damage to the child’s life is going to be really ugly. 

This article is about pretending not to see damage that is right there in front of us.

http://www.examiner.com/article/krokodil-education-everyone-knows-t...

"Krokodil Education": everyone knows the truth."