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Article #250Re: Reading should be taught in KINDERGARTEN to all children!
From: Herman Rubin
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 00:00
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In article <45np7q$gfp@news.sas.ab.ca>, <jessika@fn1.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote: >Annabel Smyth (Annabel@amsmyth.demon.co.uk) wrote: >: And what is a more enjoyable part of childhood than curled up in a corner >: somewhere reading a book? >Amen to that. >I grew up hearing a story at home that I always wondered about, though. >Perhaps someone here can explain it to me. >Either my sisters or I (I could never manage to figure out which of us >the story referred to) were discovered by our kindergarten teacher to be >able to read already. >The teacher was very upset to hear about this, and explained that I/my >sisters (twins) would have to be "un"taught to read. This is the attitude that children should learn exactly what the "eduational experts" wish them to learn, and exactly when they wish them to learn it. There was a period (late 30s to Sputnik) during which elementary children were not allowed to take school work home, and were told not to discuss things with their parents. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399 hrubin@stat.purdue.edu Phone: (317)494-6054 FAX: (317)494-0558
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e4c9,349cb912c98b70c2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10e4c9,public X-Google-Thread: 10b7c5,349cb912c98b70c2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10b7c5,public X-Google-Thread: fa84d,e560ca1c1f64aa0e X-Google-Attributes: gidfa84d,public X-Google-Thread: 103e94,349cb912c98b70c2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103e94,public X-Google-Thread: f90fc,e560ca1c1f64aa0e X-Google-Attributes: gidf90fc,public X-Google-Thread: fc521,e560ca1c1f64aa0e X-Google-Attributes: gidfc521,public X-Google-Thread: f9e27,e560ca1c1f64aa0e X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e27,public X-Google-Thread: 10a97d,e560ca1c1f64aa0e X-Google-Attributes: gid10a97d,public From: hrubin@b.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Subject: Re: Reading should be taught in KINDERGARTEN to all children! Date: 1995/10/15 Message-ID: <45r3u3$3ap2@b.stat.purdue.edu> X-Deja-AN: 117598916 references: <43r3df$k3d@shellx.best.com> <45cgmi$pmi@mtha.usc.edu> <813353494snz@amsmyth.demon.co.uk> <45np7q$gfp@news.sas.ab.ca> organization: Purdue University Statistics Department newsgroups: sci.edu,misc.education,alt.education,alt.education.alternative,alt.literacy.adult,aus.education,uk.education.misc,fj.education