Hunter Ash
@ArtemisConsort · Dec 12, 2025
The shift away from phonics is deeply bizarre. Phonetic, alphabet-based writing systems are universal in a way pictographic systems are not. To take an alphabetic language and teach it as a pictographic language is as backwards as it gets.
Niels Hoven 🐮@NielsHoven· Dec 12, 2025"[non-phonics] might be called the thalidomide of reading instruction:
It removes what some would call the discomfort of strenuous teaching but gives birth to severely handicapped students."
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This 1993 DoJ research report is the most scathing takedown of whole-word
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Crazy
11:13 PM · December 12, 2025 · 391.8K views
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