Universal screening

 

This morning I read a comment on my blog and answered it as below. 

This comment made my day. She said, 'I appreciate your philosophical approach'. 

May God bless her for such appreciative words. 

The comment was on my post on ‘An Ounce of Prevention - Benjamin Franklin’.

Anonymous

Thanks, Luqman. I appreciate your philosophical approach to how to best approach reading instruction. Do you think that universal screenings will help in prevention?

An Ounce of Prevention - Benjamin Franklin

 

Benjamin Franklin famously advised fire-threatened Philadelphians in 1736 that “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” While preventing fires is certainly preferable to battling them, we must consider the broader question: how can we protect ourselves from natural disasters?

 

Let’s shift our perspective. How does this principle apply to education?