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I’m not positive, but I think Solzhenitsyn might have been racist.
“Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves.”
John Taylor Gatto
I had an aunt said any kid with any intellect at all, aged three, could learn to draw in the sand or dirt and if you give them paint, they can do it in color. Add a picture dictionary and the next thing you know that kid will open that book and start making letters or copying pictures. Before long, she insisted, they would read or draw something worth praising them for.
Either one, reading or drawing, produces learning, she said.
Before Walt Disney drew mice, he drew birds and animals.
And, then, he got famous with a mouse named Mickey who had a dog named Pluto. Or was that Goofy?
Either way, it altered the perception of what was fit for children to use as Primers for reading. Am not being prudish, but the difference in what we used for “first readers” then and what is used now is amazing.
If you can read between the lines, it is amazing.
More than likely, if educated in the last twenty years, you cannot read.