HJL,
I just read C.L.’s blog on early literacy for children,
and I couldn’t agree more with the general trend of her commentary. Whether or
not a child ever gets post-K12 education, the child, to the best of his or her
ability, should be exposed as early as practical to as wide a variety of
literature as possible, and not just what is “suggested” by what ever the local
school board expects of them. Probably the best investment in personal
education is reading anything and everything that can be gotten a hold of,
simply to expose a child (a person, really, as reading should not stop the day
that a child graduates from high school) to as many ideas as possible, to
improve their general knowledge, and to expose them to different ways of
thinking.
It gives the child, and later the
person, so many options in regards to problem solving, not only from the amount
of knowledge they retain and the different methods of problem solving, but it
allows them to make that “magic leap” to solve problems they may not have
otherwise been exposed to, even in the extensive reading they have done. The
one great treasure, the one great power in the world, is the acquisition and
use of knowledge.
As an aside, some of the most intelligent
and truly educated people I’ve ever met never saw the inside of a college
classroom, and in a few cases, never even finished their formal K12 education.
They were self taught through a voracious appetite for reading.
With Respect, – SRG
From the Survival Blog
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