Education system
Sir,—To assist adult non-li-terates is to mop up the flood with a piece of string while someone is opening the flood-gates. Every year children begin learning by this stupid method. On their reaching adulthood, volunteers are asked to put right the damage done. To repair the defective floor (person) in a 20-storeyed (years) building (being) when the foundations are wrong, is a mammoth task. What madness to go on using the same wrong blueprints. Not until more private schools open and parents have more say will the fault be exposed. There is nothing such as dyslexia, specific or non-specific, wrong with the children. Unfortunately, they grow up to be what they were trained to be — illiterate. How else under by guess or by God?—Yours, etc., V. H. ANDERSON. March 28, 1983.
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