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.
Friday, May 11, 2007
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Here's yer link: Toddlers will be taught how to talk in an attempt to arrest the shocking decline in children's communication skills.
ReplyDeleteThanks Oro!
ReplyDeleteAnother 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.
ReplyDeleteDepressing 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.
ReplyDeleteThen 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:
ReplyDelete"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.
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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