I love people discussing education. It means they are concerned. It means they care about how children and youngsters are being thaught. Sad thing is that quite often you still hear things that are in fact popular myths. These myths have been debunked by science for years. Even more sad is that while I can understand this from someone who hasn’t studied educational sciences or who isn’t a teacher, I often read this kind of myths even in textbooks used in teacher training!

Ok, just to help out, some examples of myths that I have heard over and over again. Sometimes they make me feel I just want to start throwing things:

• The Learning Pyramid
  
  To me this is the Loch Ness monster of education. Sometimes this pyramid is quoted as the Glasser pyramid, but this a first mistake, as Glasser has nothing to with it. More correct sources are Edgar…