Nigeplus
Here is a crudely fashioned link to a story that is not funny.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=453863&in_page_id=1770
Here, to go with it, is a quotation from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd:
'If children went to school from the day they were born in order to be taught how to speak, a good percentage of the population would be unable to do so, or would stutter.'
Wise words.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=453863&in_page_id=1770
Here, to go with it, is a quotation from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd:
'If children went to school from the day they were born in order to be taught how to speak, a good percentage of the population would be unable to do so, or would stutter.'
Wise words.
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 1:43 PM
6 Comments:
At May 11, 2007 2:35 PM,
Oroborous said…
Here's yer link: Toddlers will be taught how to talk in an attempt to arrest the shocking decline in children's communication skills.
At May 11, 2007 3:21 PM,
Nige said…
Thanks Oro!
At May 11, 2007 6:05 PM,
Heather Yaxley said…
Another step closer to Brave New World. I quite like the surreal idea though of toddlers going home from "talk school" and trying to engage their grunting parents in intelligent conversation.
At May 11, 2007 10:40 PM,
Neil Forsyth said…
Depressing story indeed. In my view, if a child can't manage a sentence by 5 years of age it is a sign of parental neglect.
At May 12, 2007 2:51 AM,
Susan Balée said…
Then you have kids like my son: He began talking clearly at about 9 months and NEVER SHUT UP. I altered a Walt Whitman poem to refer to Mark:
"Out of the cradle, endlessly talking."
He's still that way, but since he's morphed into quite a comedian, he's easier to endure. Even when we're mad at him, we're laughing.
At May 12, 2007 7:38 AM,
Richard Havers said…
I return from three days in the sarf of Ingland and I see there's been a veritable posting bonanza. All plans for doing other things have been cancelled so that I can catch up
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