[Republicanprofessor]

I heard an NPR story the other day. It was revolutionary! The teachers were actually trying to teach the students to recognize the sounds that the letters make in order to sound out the words.

Wow.

They never used the word “phonics,” but that’s how we learned to read.

Duh.

[NorthMountain]

The teachers were actually trying to teach the students to recognize the sounds that the letters make in order to sound out the words.

How utterly astonishing! It's not like the Greeks and Romans devised such a system millennia ago ...