The foundations for learning

Foundations take longer to create than buildings the higher the building, the firmer the foundations have to be the more stress a building is likely to face, the more flexible the foundations need to be when building on poor ground, the foundations must be strengthened to compensate if new buildings are to be added to existing buildings, making the right connections between the foundations is crucial when testing foundations, early strength is not a reliable predictor of later strength if foundations are inadequate, it is very, very expensive to underpin them later on.