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Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the... →
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church... →
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of... →
I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such... →
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who... →
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the... →
Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive... →
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
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