151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack) Wed. May 22, 2024

Episode 151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack)Wed.,  May 22, 2024NB: the public schools are probably much worse than you suspect. But people don't want to deal with that information, so the Education Establishment gets away with doing a lousy job. I'm trying to persuade everybody to be more judgmental, more demanding, more of a catalyst.——--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Relevant article: K-12: In Praise of WOW! Joan Dunn’s book Retreat from Learning is available in Archive.org-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print  (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what we can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.Support the show