2023-08-18 23:46:34
I confirm the words of Lise Bédard this morning in your column when she affirms that her father, who lived in the early 1900s, wrote without mistakes following having completed a seventh year. She too had achieved the same result with great effort. But she lamented the fact that effort was now banned from the school landscape.
Well, I think exactly like her. I am 70 years old, and from the age of 9 I no longer made mistakes while writing. It was not easy to learn French with the help of Grevisse and Bescherelle who were imposed on us by the nuns who taught us. But we had no choice but to comply with their wishes. Why isn’t the school system going back to the old ways that were so effective?
grandma
Because times have changed and a certain general principle of least effort has taken hold. A gentleman wrote me the same thing, adding that it was the same for people who have not learned to count and who rely on the hands of financial advisers to be guided without being able to challenger.
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