"Dude" wrote in message
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Margy,

I must challenge this statement:

"Contray to the uninformed opinion of other posters teachers really do
study
how
minds work."

I was with you all the way until I got to this one. Either your positive
attitude, or an unusually positive series of coincidences has shaded your
judgement on the interest in childrens' minds held by many teachers today.
I am not uninformed. A close personal friend of mine is a public school
teacher, and I attended several public and private schools. Unlike many
people, I have a good memory of what transpired.

Here's a question you might ask any teacher, particularly at the elementary
school level:

Differentiate the "Look-Say" and "Phonetic" methods of teaching reading. Why
is one method better than the other?

It's rather amazing (at least in my experience) how many CAN'T explain it
and how many current teachers really can't fathom why the look-say method is
an abject failure.