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...this Flesch-pother is his statement: "... teaching of reading never was a problem anywhere in the world until the United States switched to the present method around 1925." Surely learning to read has always been a problem. I was taught with the aid of a famous English primer called Reading Without Tears, which was first published in England in 1857, and used by at least three generations of English children. But that it did not live up to its title is confirmed by Winston Churchill, who refers feelingly in his memoirs [A Roving Commission] to his early bouts with this...
...pupil is expected to build up a vocabulary of 50 to 100 words he can recognize at sight. Some teachers use flashcards; others may have a "daily newspaper" for which the children can recite a one-sentence story about themselves ("I played ball yesterday"). Detroit schools use a pre-primer called Before We Read. This teaches the beginner to distinguish shapes (e.g., by picking out a sailboat from a series of trucks) and sounds (e.g., by picking out objects with similar names, as in rabbit and rattle, turtle and turkey). The next book also contains a number of word captions...
...effective, the five major fields and some of the smaller departments should be represented on each House's resident staff. Some Houses lack resident tutors even in English and Social Relations. Only one House has a resident in Philosophy, although an instructor in this field would be an ideal primer for student discussions, whether in the dining room, the common room, or the tutor's own suite. By selecting tutors to live in the House from a large number of fields, Masters would enable nearly every student to find a Faculty member in his own field of interest...
Officials in the Graduate School of Design are considering publishing the results of the study in the form of a primer in City Planning, and distributing it to the citizens of Cambridge...
...Fashioned Virtues. Pleissner explains his own art in primer-simple terms: "I get a big kick out of nature, the moods and changes of the year and the weather. Effects of light have a great deal to do with the mood, so I make small (7 in. by 10 in.) watercolor sketches on the spot, before the light changes too much. The full-size painting I make afterwards in my studio. Drawing is very difficult for me-I don't know a thing about perspective-and I draw on tracing paper first so as not to mess...