Time and phases often repeat themselves. Clothing styles and toys usually come around every so many years. Bell-bottom pants came back renamed as flare jeans and children once again began playing with Cabbage Patch Dolls and Strawberry Shortcake. Education is no exemption to this cycle of life. Methods of teaching and appropriate forms of learning come in and out of date also. At one point in time children were to begin learning to write using large lined pads of paper and fat pencils and crayons. Those pads of paper and crayons and pencils can still be bought today. However, they … Continue reading →