The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
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