I know they would -- I learned via that method. But have you ever considered that the refusal by "professional educators" to teach phonics is an element of the "dumbing America down" Project?
A well-read, informed America would no doubt complicate efforts to impose Marxism on us.
Yes. That’s what Blumenfeld is saying in the quote from his book of essays. Not just the dumbing-down project. But the make-America-Socialist project.
Blumenfeld is one of the few people who argue that the dumbing down was deliberate and was ideologically motivated. I agree with him. Google, for example, “30: the War Against Reading.” It’s fairly long but all the key quotes are there from all the leading trouble-makers.