Anonymous ID: 11b670 Oct. 12, 2018, 11:18 a.m. No.3452991   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3341

>>3452937

Apparently I was born being able to see them and understand the grammatical relations of words in sentences without thinking about it. They just pop out at me. Can't help it. Lots of foreign language study at an early age may have been one influence. It's an autistic thing that older people who were reading a whole lot while they were growing up acquire. In our youth we used to get 7 library books a week from the public library and read them cover to cover, sometimes multiple books simultaneously. People who cut their teeth watching MTV videos and writing 144-character tweets might not be as sensitized to the nuances of formal written language.

Anonymous ID: 11b670 Oct. 12, 2018, 12:04 p.m. No.3453341   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>3452991

I hear ya, anon.

Back in the day, spelling tests used to result in grades instead of participation trophies. It was a feedback system to tell the student how they were doing and where they needed to improve. There were objective standards (like in the workplace โ€“ where good grades equates to favorable personnel reviews "meets or exceeds requirements" and raises). The schools did a better job of preparing students for an adult workplace and productive employment. Now, not so much.

Can we go back to an educational system characterized by objective standards?