Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

Adrian Morgan wrote:

> Not so long ago on a newsgroup I frequent (and where I first met Irina) I
> took part in a thread about education systems around the world. One
> aspect of the discussion concerned the fact that Australian schools, by
> and large, spend very little energy in teaching techniques for reading,
> operating on the policy that most kids pick up the skill naturally.
>
Interesting! In Grades 1 & 2, my school tried to teach me the reading
one letter at a time technique, but it didn't do me any good. From
Grades 3 to 6 I attended an alternative school, and part of their
philosophy was that there was more than one correct way to do something,
and that's where I flourished, and accomplished many things, including
learing how to read by word-recognition, and becoming somewhat nuts.

I look back at that school with nothing but fond memories - it was one
of the best parenting decisions my parents ever made, IMHO, to put me in
an alternative school.

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Robert