Angus Thinks... » education http://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus SQLEditor for Mac OS X, Life and general thoughts Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:14:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Abolish the “Three Rs” http://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/2006/08/25/abolish-the-three-rs/ http://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/2006/08/25/abolish-the-three-rs/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:59:21 +0000 Angus Hardie http://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/?p=183 Continue reading →]]> Why is it that whenever anyone seems to talk about education they always seem to use the phrase “Three Rs”. This particuarly stupid phrase seems to appear in every article about basic education.

I think the very stupidity of this phrase affects education as a whole. If commentary and discussion on the topic of literacy is illiterate, what hope do those trying to achieve literacy have?

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