Posted on 03/12/2016 5:36:05 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
Global warming is biggest scam and was not in the list.
Great post! 100% on target!
Good advice, thanks.
I learned the old-fashioned way, via phonics, and by the seventh grade I was reading Dostoevsky...and LOVING it!
I could “sound out” anything.
An ancient but wonderful method of teaching sight-reading music is “Solfeggio” which is the old “Do re mi” method of note-reading. It works in a similar fashion, by “sounding out” the intervals.
The real problem with Education is that it has been taken over by the large Tax Exempt foundations (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, etc) that do not want children to graduate with the skills necessary to go out in the world and make it on their own. They want workers.
Don’t listen to Phyllis Schafley, listen to Charlotte Iserbyt.
Here is a 45 minute interview with Norman Dodd who was the lead investigator for the majority in the Reece Commission on Large Tax Exempt Foundations, 1953/1954. The interview took place in the 1980s just before he died:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYCBfmIcHM
I guess I should give him credit for being honest about his motivations. He was pretty open in his assertions that the role of public schools was to ensure that American kids were NOT educated -- but were being prepared to serve as laborers in an industrial economy. Even something as simple as kids lining up in the school yard after a loud bell rang on the outside of the building was supposed to mimic the whistle that sounded at the local factory at the start of every shift.
The Kenyanesian Usurpation is the biggest con in history.
He told us he was born a British subject.
That would make him NOT a natural born citizen.
My daughter had a learning disability where she had trouble with things like “sight words” and multiplication tables.
Their solution to the reading: Phonics. I was thrilled. She received individual instruction three days a week. She graduated college in May with honors.
The people running schools are idiots.
Phonics is THE way to learn.
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My daughter was taught to read in kindergarten in three months with a system close to this one. It starts with the long vowels. I think I was taught this way as well. It’s from the 70’s. Everything is here:
http://wigowsky.com/services.html
I r a graduite of the Evelyn Woodhead Sped Reedin Kourse.
If your children are eager, teach them to read during their 3rd year. A book is a good baby-sitter.
We use the “look-say” method starting out with letters, phonemes, and syllables, not words. Flash cards are always effectual, for all ages.
I also sing in the Latin Choir and I often transcribe my harmony (alto) into shape notes so I can grasp and practice the parts that are more difficult for me. The shapes (Do-Re-Me) are amazingly effective in learning new music.
The best can sight-read hundreds and hundreds of songs.
Does that inhibit reading music?
Shape Note music uses the same staff, scales, key signatures, notation, and other symbols as standard music, with the exception that the body of the note is not always an oval (round) shape. It could be (in Walker's 7-shape system) a tiny trapezoid, crescent, diamond, flag, oval, square, or a triangle.
Anyone who can read "regular" music can read shape notes, it's just that for a-Capella 4-part singing, it's faster and easier for children and other beginner or untrained singers to match the pitch to the shape. Once you get the "DO" you can get all the intervals right and sing every part on the page, no matter what the key signature.
So if you’re learning to play Bach’s first Praelidium, you can get that in shape note? Or is it no longer necessary at that point?
Praeludium
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