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What Your Second Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education Revised (Core Knowledge Series) What Your Second Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education Revised by E.D. Hirsch Jr.
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“Plato said that stories are the most important part of early education and advised parents and teachers to take great care in choosing the right stories: “Let them fashion the mind with such tales even more fondly than they mold the body.”
E.D. Hirsch Jr., What Your Second Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated): Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education
“Learning builds on learning: children (and adults) gain new knowledge only by augmenting what they already know.”
E.D. Hirsch Jr., What Your Second Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated): Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education
“If we want our children to be broadly competent readers, thinkers, and problem solvers, they must have a rich, broad store of background knowledge to call upon, enabling them to flex those mental muscles.”
E.D. Hirsch Jr., What Your Second Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated): Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education