Educationally speaking

I appreciated Dale Mitchell’s column “Educationally Speaking” regarding teaching students how to learn. First, it is good to know what page our superintendent is on with regard to our children’s education.

Second, he has made a point of stressing something I have long thought to be missing from education. I did not have a clue of “how” to learn until somewhere in mid-life. The only thing I was able to discern at that point was that one had to actually “listen” and be mentally present in the classroom in order to learn.

I was successful in my school years simply because I had the ability to mem...