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EDMONTON, Alberta, (LifeSiteNews) – Alberta’s provincial government will pilot their new education curriculum for grades K-6 this fall.
The draft curriculum released this past March has moved away from “Discovery Learning” and integrated a “Knowledge-based” system that has some educational gurus rejoicing and woke progressives arming for battle.
In an interview with LifeSiteNews, Stuart Wachowicz, a former Director of Curriculum for Edmonton Public Schools and of Edmonton’s Confucius Institute, welcomed the government’s changes to education.
He described the “Discovery” methodology as “inane thinking that assumes you can just figure it all out for yourself [just] because you are interested, without the ability to have the repository of centuries of greatness in thought available to your brain.”
“You can’t think without knowledge,” Wachowicz continued.
“How do you think when you don’t know anything? Discovery Learning works very well if, and only if, you have a very strong and comprehensive knowledge base to work with.”
Having no knowledge about what you are trying to discover will result in not discovering anything, Wachowicz explained.
Alberta’s Education Minister Adriana Lagrange and her team have proposed this K-6 curriculum, one that focuses on mastering literacy, acquiring knowledge, and exposing the
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