When teachers go wrong!

Rev Mrs Angela Robinson, in a letter recently published in these columns, expressed her admiration for Israel saying, "Within a generation, they (the Israelis) were among the finest soldiers in the world. They began sending agricultural advisers all over the world to poorer countries…" and goes on to indicate that this piece of reality can be used to teach children to think. Wow! Her teaching techniques in her British School in Dhaka must be one of the latest ones! I would like to know what else children learn in this school.

Child-psychology tells us that children learn by association. If you tell a child that 'X' in 'Y' is good, then the child will associate the two (i.e. X and Y) and will think Y must be good too. In Rev Mrs Angela Robinson's example, if she tells the children in her school that having a superb agriculture is excellent and Israel has it, then the children will end up concluding that Israel is also good, which, through an inevitable extension of that association will also mean if Israel is not liked by some people, they are jealous or bad.

I am sure Rev Mrs Angela Robinson doesn't want her students to come to those conclusions. The cruel, wicked state of Israel needs to be portrayed in a like manner so that the children, who will lead our nation one day, are not deprived of the truth.