Quotes: You Call It "Drilling," I Call It "Grit"

Much is made by both reformers and progressives about the soul-killing nature of drill, but I got hooked on the genuine triumph my students felt when they worked a whole set of problems correctly. - Teacher Michelle Kerr (Where school reform fails to meet classroom reality)

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[mpledger]

It's not doing one set of drill, it's doing it hour after hour, day after day, week after week, year after year.

While that *may* give kids grit, I am sure there are much better, more efficient, happier ways of learning both grit and school work.