A Cereal Box Prize of Hatred
I wonder at the necessity of asserting that reading and writing foster reading and writing.
But beyond that there is the familiar disconnect, in the "What's the Matter with Kansas" sort of way, where the idea of testing and drill and vocabulary lists or word recognition lists being used ad nauseum in the lower grades--exactly the time when doing this induces and abject hatred for and distrust of WORDS as they are offered in the context of judgement--that this method of "education" is extraordinarily invasively "regulatory."
That is to say, the very people who produce an endless stream of invective about government regulations and intervention seek to inundate our schools with a steady diet of content/context regulation. The very people who expound against "eggheads" and academic experts and elites resort time and again to "experts" of their own who offer any number of (specious, or at least contentious) studies saying that the "method" of learning words
