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The Educated Vs. The Literate

I recently had a run-in with the Principal and the owner of a pre-primary school my younger one was going to as amazingly, his outfit was demanding from these 3 year toddlers, writing skills which a 1 st grader’s mom would be proud of and to top it all, the play school expected the hapless young minds to learn up all sorts of facts and reproduce the information verbatim in, do hold your breath, EXAMS, written and oral! I am sure everyone would agree that where children are concerned you can transform yourself from a mild mannered Clark Kent to Superman (an angry one i.e.) in no time. Literacy I told him was not why I was sending my son to his play school. I wanted my child to be educated not made a literate. Like most people I say that to, he too was utterly confused and as with most people, I had to explain what I meant. My main objective of sending my little darling out of the protective and loving environment of a home to a school was not to teach him to read and write only