Posted on 11/19/2012 3:00:43 PM PST by Pleistarchos
.... From there the regression into abandoning the teaching of reading to children was rapid. Teaching “reading” came to be viewed by many to be the act of repeatedly showing children flash cards in an effort to get them to recognize words by rote memorization as opposed to actually reading the words.
Fortunately for my eldest, this had not reached the elementary schools by the mid-90s and she was taught how to read and write. My youngest, though, was met with this like a freight train and the results were comparable with a train wreck. My youngest was a hard-working student, a pretty bright kid, and had no disabilities such as dyslexia+. When I saw what was going on, I approached the teacher, who clearly had been taken in by the smoke and mirrors of this system and was a strong advocate of effectively skipping steps one and two (Learning symbols for sounds (1) and having students apply that knowledge to letters placed together and have them learn to “sound them out”(2) ). She was, sadly, a very nice and clearly bright individual. In fact, I was more disappointed that this person, who was clearly no dolt, could not have seen that this flash-recognition system not only has no place in the teaching of reading to our youth but that it essentially and utterly ignores the very system that we have and utilize for reading and writing in the first place! Her response was that, with this system, “He will learn how to read like that “(Snaps her fingers) Well, my kid is in first grade and I don’t want him reading in a snap; I want him to learn how to read......
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It was socialist John Dewey and his despicable inner circle who introduced the whole word method, which made it difficult for 40% of the population to learn to read. They openly admitted they were preventing children from learning to read until third grade or later, not first grade.
Of course, their real goal was a dumbed-down population.
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Hey! I thought this was a vanity about all the semi-literate FR posts!
The linked American Thinker article in the full post quotes a Stanley Hall who in 1911 said this:
“In 1911, G. Stanley Hall, one of John Dewey’s mentors, went so far as to extol illiteracy: “It is possible, despite the stigma our bepedagogued age puts upon this disability, for those who are under it not only to lead a useful, happy, virtuous life, but to be really well-educated in many other ways.”
Looks like Dewey had a teacher of sorts.
That must be a new development as it was never the case previously.
I note that blogspot (nor any free blog service) is listed on the excerpt / copyright page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts
I always thought Jim was quite clear on the subject of bloggers excerpting their own material:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552
"I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits
and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join
in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR."
Perhaps I was mistaken.
is there a YouTube of kids with the phonic-learned VS non-phonic-learned at whatever best grade level to demonstrate the findings ??
And therein lies the problem! There aren't any left, from law to journalism to education to politics to everything and anything!!!
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