Bak 2 Basix

 

We really need to go back to basics. We need to teach how to count. If I have four pencils in one hand and three in another then I will have seven in all.

Saying 4+3 =7 does not make any sense unless you understand what the symbols mean; any more than saying 9+3 = 12 or 6+6 = 12. 

In the same way we need to teach that C A T is a cat. Otherwise it might as well be an elephant, a rhinoceros or anything else you wish it to be. We must teach the sound the letters C A and T make.

Instead, we rely on calculators and spell-check and predictive text. I might as well be eating locusts and wild honey and dress in camel hair for all the good it will do.

There's a lot of people who do not know the basics of Maths like mental multiplications, divisions, decimals, fractions and percentages. Did you know that 9 out of 7 people cannot work out fractions and decimal points; that's at least 50% of them.

It's the same with literacy. Most people no longer read books and I am left as the only one buying the ones I write. 

Likewise, we need to teach who Jesus is, the Apostles, the Holy Spirit and the basics of Christianity, as well as other religions and beliefs. 

There's a whole new generation out there who may have heard of God, but don't really know Who He is.

“Whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven”
(Matthew 10:33)