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Originally Posted by Bruce Achterberg  Sorry to break your paradigm, but my parents--mostly my mother--taught me how to read.
Teachers taught me pretty much squat. In fact, I kind of feel I would have been better off without teachers and school since I would have had the freedom to naturally play to my strengths as I tend to do when I'm left alone to my own devices. Not that school wasn't educational for me, but in terms of actually being effective, I think I could have done more on my own (whether I would have is a different story, but the potential was definitely there; I think I would have done what I'm doing now if I was just left on my own, just earlier. That would have been a good thing! At least, it seems so from this perspective) |
I was going to point out that I know hundreds of radically unschooled kids who have never been *taught* anything, in the traditional sense of the word, and they know much, much more than schooled kids.
I never taught my youngest son to read, and he reads very well. Learning is an organic process when it's allowed to be.