Learning Spanish Part Twenty: The Silent Way Method

A most bizarre philosophy of education called “Discovery Learning,” based partly on the educational ideas of Rousseau, Pestalozzi and Dewey, led to The Silent Way Method of Second Language acquisition. It also enjoyed the support of psycho-babblists (psychologists) Piaget, Bruner, and Papert. Seymour Papert said, “You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The […]