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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Kader and Mulholland on the same billboard

Kader introduced OBE and it failed.

Mulholland fought it tooth and nail from before its introduction.

http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global[_id]=26866

Sunday Times columnist Steven Mulholland voiced concerns that OBE was replacing reading, writing and arithmetic with projects, portfolios and performances. The essential shortcoming of OBE, he argued, was that it refuted the need for competition and individual excellence bec­ause its workings were group-based and aimed at promoting self-esteem. Children would not learn basic skills because they would not be taught them. Instead, the system would produc­e a generation of confident illiterat­es.

And this:


http://www.btimes.co.za/97/0608/columns/columns2.htm

There they are on the same Finweek billboard on the N1.

Pic to come if I can take it timeously.

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