Teaching to Teach vs. Learning to Learn

To be brutally honest, I have a radical perspective on education. Conventional wisdom says that if we give teachers enough training and we have this super multi-modal education, then all the children will benefit. My experience is that there are a significant number of children with specific difficulties perceiving and processing information. Unless these difficulties are address (in the child), it will probably not matter what modality the teacher uses. Worse still, if the child goes through school dependent upon a specific teaching method, what happens when he enters the "real world" and does not have someone spoon-feeding him information in the correct format. NO! My position is that if the problem is in/with the CHILD, it is the CHILD that needs the attention and training--not the teacher. The child deserves to be taught how to use his natural abilities to his advantage. Many of my students have gone from D's to B's and A's. Several have gone from Special Ed track to Honor Roll in little more than a year with the right training. I see Dyselxics learning to read at over 1,000 words per minute. I see children with short-term memory issues memorizing all 50 states and their capitals, the amendents to the constitution. I, myself, memorized the first 2,026 digits of PI just for fun. There's not a teacher or teaching method on the planet that can reproduce those results. Increases of that magnitude can only happen when it is the STUDENT that is provided with new strategies for perceiving and processing information.