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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Bruce, you are absolutely brilliant.

Now here’s the worst horror story I ever heard regarding the reading problem in this country.

In the ‘80s two recently graduated doctors were camping in a national forest in Washington State and nearly burned it down. They read in their camping handbook that their garbage was to be “burned.” What? Nope, the word was “buried.”

This is the kind of mistake resulting from the reading system taught in our schools today - they don’t teach attention to details.

How would you like these guys to operate on you?


5 posted on 10/22/2013 1:04:36 PM PDT by Liberty Wins ( The average lefty is synapse challenged)
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To: Liberty Wins

“Burned” and “buried” have the same shape. How can people be expected to tell them apart?


27 posted on 10/22/2013 2:50:45 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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