Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Robert Hailman wrote:

> 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.
<G>  Sounds good to me.  I don't remember how I learned to read.  It was
very early, with my mom using flashcards and Sesame Street, but I knew
how to write and read before kindergarten.  I remember on the first day
of kindergarten most of the other kids didn't, which puzzled me--but my
mom got her bachelor of science equivalent in educational technology, so
she must've been feeling teacher-ish.  I really should ask her how she
did it, because my first tongue written and spoken *was* Korean, and
never mind that I suck at it now.

YHL