Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.
The way to make public decision of how to teach children should go through testing the different methods and comparing their results. That is the scientific method.
Just because you are able to self hypnotise yourself in the photoreading process to think you understand the content of a given book doesn't mean you actually understand it..
Therefore you shouldn't teach every child photoreading just because those people who pratice photoreading think they understand what they read.
That is no sensible way to make public policy.
What should happen is that those techniques get tested in pilot projects, where the results get published.
In our society the burdon of prove is in the hands of those people who present the new techniques. For some reason the proponents of Photoreading aren't pushing independent research.
Then we do have an education system that hasn't changed much in the last 100 years, while our scientific theory of learning has changed in the same time.
Students aren't taught mnemonics that could help them with learning foreign languages.
Instead students get told: Find your own way to learn foreign words.
The problem is that the decision to teach that way is based on the "common sense" of the teachers who thinks what they have always done is the best way.
Then their is the part of dealing with their own feelings. It just isn't taught. You could teach traditional psychology here.
You could also teach NLP or meditation in that category.
But it is difficult to measure the effect of such coures. On the other hand nobody measures whether knowing about history improves your life.
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