Mr Marcus McGowan MSc PgDip BA (Hons)

This Business Education Learning Blog is aimed primarily at Higher Business Management students/teachers and ICT students/teachers.

The aim of this blog is to provide you with interesting articles, news, trivia as well as resources or links to materials which will help in your course of study.

I am a Teacher of Business Education and I have written for Education Scotland and BBC Bitesize.

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Wednesday 24 February 2010

Why literacy and numeracy are STILL important!

It used to be called the 3 Rs.

Reading
wRiting
aRithmetic

Now we call it literacy and numeracy.

A shocking study of Scottish pupils has indicated that 66% leave Primary Education lacking these basic skills.

This will have a huge long term impact on not only our education system, but our economy.

Reading and writing in particular seem to be a lost art at times. I implore pupils, students and learners to realise just how important these basics are in life and work. You cannot expect to be a lawyer, doctor or accountant if you cannot master the basics! You will no be able to function in your job.

Pupils have to take more responsibility for their own learning and realise that not every lesson should be entertaining. Teachers are here to educate and pass on knowledge and skills. When you get to the 'Big Bad World' no-one is going to hold your hand and guide you through the basics.

To complete many tasks you will need to find information out for yourself, by guess what? Not by drinking a magic potion or watching the latest US import on TV, or even by listening to your iPod in one ear.

No.

By reading!

So please consider your future and the future of even your own potential children and start trying to think independently and making more of an effort.

We do not want to have a future like in the film Idiocracy, where a man from the 20th century wakes up in the distant future to find he has the highest IQ on Earth!

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