American literacy lost a generation to the premise of 'Whole Language', a heretical public school dogma that skips over the pieces that make the mosaic.
The nemesis of phonics and a delusion of kooky liberal Ken Goodman - President of the Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking, along with other manipulative social scientists - the negligence of Whole Language forgives the lack of certainty, encourages ignorance, and prolongs illiteracy.
It doesn't matter that you can't analyze what you don't know, just take a guess at it, forget about certainty versus doubt, and remain stoopid.
A kid can't comprehend what he can't read. But, who can argue with the President of Thinking?
Although Whole Language has been roundly discredited well after its victims packed society's lower strata, its history exemplifies the viral potentiality of mass movements.
The inept education industry is now trying to redress its capstone catastrophe by grasping at AI, where empowerment is the pitch and dependency is the business model. Software’s not a solution for illiteracy, it’s been failing for forty years. Any kid relying on a machine to think for him will accrue cognitive debt with compound interest, completely reliant on the machine he thought he controlled.