Do you worry about your child in school?

Do you wish to help your students learn better?

Have you ever wondered why too many children actually fail in school today?

“Why don’t all children gain top marks?

All, if not most parents want this for their child. All, if not most employers desire the school to provide future workers being more competent and more adjustable to learn new skills, by demonstration of higher grades. All, if not most teachers wish their students would respond in the right ways at the right times to give all top marks, but they don’t. Students vary in their effort, interests, drives and abilities. Governments and private individuals have invested enormous amounts of money, time and energy to create better learning environments in the expectation if not hope that students will learn better and gain better grades, but they don’t. Education discovers new gurus to inspire teachers with new methods to make learning better. Teachers like these. Students like them, but no change in ability is witnessed. Students still vary as they always have done in a class with one or two knowing the correct answers when asked and always gaining the top marks, with the rest varying from good to poor in their responses.

Throughout 12 years of schooling, I was one of the worst in my class. I never understood what I did wrong to always gain low marks and seemingly more red scribbles than anyone else. At 17, I failed all my final examinations. Yet, I went back to education at 19 and was a tremendous success. Since then and in different guises, I have struggled over the past 40 years to find out what is wrong with the ways school operates. My motivation was that I never wanted one child to fail as I had done. I created this to be my life’s mission. It took me decades to really discover what is wrong with school. In this book, I share my findings with you.

One of the first things we need to realise is that despite the opinions of various educationalists, the educational service works on the principle that student ability is in one part their drive and effort and in the other their natural ability. This is to say the genetic quality of intelligence the student inherited through their family line.