Why Students Fail
Sir, —English is not a subject, but the subject. Ability to read rapidly airid accurately is the key to all knowledge. Once, the reading of children was heard almost daily by their primary teachers. In addition, headmasters tested young pupils in the subject three times a year. Also pupils had as their own property monthly journals from which reading could be learned and heard both at home and at school. I am not concerned about the few who are not mentally equipped for reading but with the thousands who are, but, as is shown by the countless picture-story books sold to young adults, cannot read with ease and speed. Teaching children to read is surely the main task, of the lower primary classes. From what employers, examiners, and crammers say to me,, that task is being sadly neglected. —Yours, etc., ACTION NOW. March 12, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30389, 13 March 1964, Page 3
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