David Elkind Quotes:
Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: b. March 11, 1931
Birthday: March 11
It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.
source: David Elkind (1995). “TIES THAT STRESS”, p.131, Harvard University Press
topic: Children, Teaching, Mean, Decimals, Centeredness, Rigor
