By similar self-educative devices, the child is led to individual mastery of the basic skills of everyday life and then to schoolwork in arithmetic and grammar.
But his mastery of the basic crafts of journalism was not irrelevant.Writing and reporting, of the kind Deedes relished, are less valued now than once they were, at least by the media industry.
Education was to be compulsory from age 6 to 18. Schooling was to be divided into three successive stages: (1) 6 to 11, aimed at mastery of the basic skills and knowledge, (2) 11 to 15, a period of guidance to discover aptitudes, and (3) 15 to 18, a stage during which education was to be diversified and specialized.
Participants were first evaluated for mastery of the basic rules that govern the hierarchical structure of algebra (i.e., order of operations).
What impressed me more, however, was the boys' youthful mastery of the basics of Odissi style.
The House education bill adopted Texas's insistence on mastery of the basics of reading and writing by all groups.
His painting illustrates this by its unexceptional mastery of the basics of design - the circular top of the pipe bowl is a foreshortened disc with a void within it, drawn with sterile academic precision.
Many experts, like Mr. Levine, say the political debate over social promotion -- with conservatives demanding the mastery of basic skills and liberals urging the nurturing of social development misses the point.
"There is no transparency without readiness, which is the mastery of basic skills and basic language that gives you the ability to make sense of the information," said Joline Godfrey, an author and consultant to wealthy families struggling with their own financial disclosure questions.
France, England and, most memorably, Ireland all threatened to beat New Zealand, but didn't have either the firepower, mastery of basic skills under intense pressure, or self-belief, to close the deal.
