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Originally Posted by TheBigDog
Was it your choice to not read until you were eleven? My 3 year old wants to read. Should I keep books out of his hands until his voice begins to change?
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The only way one can teach a three year old to read is via rote indoctrination. In this way whatever original style of grammatical construction that child might have expressed if its mind had not already been mechnaically processed is lost. Most high school graduates can barely write a legible letter, let alone make it interesting. Ergo, we have a dirth of good poets and essayists. All my kids have written poems and novels already - not because I asked them to - but because of an innate awaking of intellectual delight in using words to make plots and characters come alive as their own creation. The impulse burst out of each of them spontaneously. This is the the ancestral heritage of all of us. This delightful and creative intellectual excersize via writing essays and novels and poems is sadly repressed in most of our school kids. God alone knows how many potentially great writers have we might have suppressed! You might want to think a little more deeper about this before you get your kid automated and purhaps crush forever originality that might be there. I have proved that conventional wisdom is wrong - that late reading is not repressive - but exactly the reverse.
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The logic that you and your father are using is flawed. The sample size of your family and the relative success in education of the kids is hardly a decisive reason to throw away the education system.
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The group is small indeed. But the results have been 100% conclusive despite all and sundry telling me I would end up with illiterate idiots twenty years ago.
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For all of its warts and shortcomings it is the result of societal evolution in the effort to produce capable and knowledgable citizens.
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The implimentation of a compulsory national school system was necessary during the era of nation building and the need for a uniformly literate work force able to build up our national industries and man the mass poduction lines. But that mechanical era is over. We need a vastly more creative and orginal mind on the planet today.
I do not know if the self-motivating system I developed for my kids is the best one around. I do know that it takes dual brain development into account and also instills a profound sense of moral self-policing. So its a start at the very least.
The very least I expected from this science forum was some constructuive criticism - not derrision.
As it stands the current state system produces only 1% of straight A students. 40% drop out entirely before graduation, and of the mediocre rest, many cheat at examainations. What a waste of potential genius. These are stark realities that are bothering tens of thousands of parents who have already withdrawn their kids from the system.
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Be happy for yourselves, but realize that your circomstances are unique, and your results are due to the capabilities of the people involved. (that is a compliment)
Bill
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Thanks for the compliment. But the only unique input from the parents has been because we care about their education more than most. The kids imprinted genius and striving for personal excellence surfaced under their own steam under the right encouragement.
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