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... Is because from grade 1 on you're taught "read slowly. read out loud".
Newsflash, the brain can handle a lot more information in a much shorter span than you get at the pace of "reading out loud".
As a kid, when I had to read something in class, by the end a few lines I'd have read at the very least a sentence ahead. Then I'd get the whole crap like, oh, slow down and read more carefully cuz I'd mess up a word or two (that's what you get when the sentence you're reading is not the one you'r pronouncing, duh!)
I'm STILL trying to get rid of the habit they developed in me then! Truth is, the brain can read like three-five times as fast as the mouth can, and still process all of the information.
And then there's the endless repetitions. When I was seven, I started learning equations. Then, I moved to holland to a Dutch school, and for the next five years, all I was learning were twenty thausand times the multiplication tables, like 6x5 or 9x7.
I never got good at that. My brain doesn't work on speedy multiplications. Cashier's brains work on speedy multiplications. Mine works on equations. The multiplications I always did on a calculator. That's what those were invented for, you know!
The only reason I can multiply now, is cuz my job demands it (I take inventory on sundays, kinda helps to multiply there).
My point is though, kids ARE bored out of their wits in our school system.
Who ever came up with the idea of putting stupid (like IQ 70) and smart (like IQ 130) kids in the same class? The former are made to feel stupid and unworthy, the latter are bored into apathy. There should be at least 1 split, maybe 2. Then if a kid turns out to be getting smarter as it gets older, you can move him from 1 class to the other. Okay maybe he'll loose 1 or 2 years in the process, but what's that on a lifetime anyway? The school system would get a lot more productive for it though.
It's not like the stupidest kids in class have dreams of going to a university anyway. Actually the ones we had in our class all wanted to become farmers or drivers for some reason.
"Of course I'm paranoid, everyone's trying to kill me."
- Weyoun, "Treachery, Faith and the Great River"
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AUTHOR OF THIS MESSAGE
Sessy
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05 september 2007, 16:08:26
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