Most of us "oldies" learned to read phonetically, This stopped decades ago, when the "look-say" method came in. I'm no expert on this, but apparently, you learned by sort of memorizing the look of the word. And even worse, if you said something that was "sort of right", like saying "bush" when it was a tree, that was OK, too. My sister was a teacher and she ran into illiterate adults, and kids, and taught the the Wilson Method, I think it was called. It was phonetic. They all learned to read very effectively. So, we can probably thank the education lefties for messing with literacy, just as they have destroyed math, and history, too. Correct me if I'm wrong. Reading is my life, you might say, and when I meet kids who don't like to read, I know they are headed for poverty. I am now working on a program that spans 2500 years of the humanities, so that kids and young adults can learn what treasures western civilization has produced in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, drama and philosophy. Should be fun. Well, that's MY idea of fun, anyway.......And, the overarching message is from Rousas Rushdoony: "All culture is religion externalized." It certainly is. And now, the satanic and degenerate culture that surrounds us, godless, ugly, proves my point.
Most of us "oldies" learned to read phonetically, This stopped decades ago, when the "look-say" method came in. I'm no expert on this, but apparently, you learned by sort of memorizing the look of the word. And even worse, if you said something that was "sort of right", like saying "bush" when it was a tree, that was OK, too. My sister was a teacher and she ran into illiterate adults, and kids, and taught the the Wilson Method, I think it was called. It was phonetic. They all learned to read very effectively. So, we can probably thank the education lefties for messing with literacy, just as they have destroyed math, and history, too. Correct me if I'm wrong. Reading is my life, you might say, and when I meet kids who don't like to read, I know they are headed for poverty. I am now working on a program that spans 2500 years of the humanities, so that kids and young adults can learn what treasures western civilization has produced in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, drama and philosophy. Should be fun. Well, that's MY idea of fun, anyway.......And, the overarching message is from Rousas Rushdoony: "All culture is religion externalized." It certainly is. And now, the satanic and degenerate culture that surrounds us, godless, ugly, proves my point.