Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Kevin O’Keefe asks; I teach 2nd grade. Knowing what you know now as an adult, if you had to go back to second grade, would you do anything differently? Would you focus on certain areas? What advice would you give yourself or others? ?

I don’t think second grade is about any particular knowledge or advice. It is about skills. It is about mastering literacy, basic mathematics, facts, and how to conduct yourself.

Any advice given to second-grade me would have been quickly forgotten because I wasn’t at a point where such advice mattered.

So, my advice to second graders would be no advice at all. Master reading, arithmetic, and basic knowledge such that when you are older you will be able to use those skills.