EPISODE · Feb 21, 2025 · 21 MIN
What are you saying?
from The Long Road · host Ron Jones
Is anyone else having significant problems understanding what people are saying? Can you understand what they are attempting to write? It seems that we have a real communication breakdown from oral to written--and especially with children. Here are a few observations, some thoughts, and some interesting reading from an 1800s elementary school textbook.Reference: "McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader" (Revised Edition, 1879)*Photo by Ron Jones
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Is anyone else having significant problems understanding what people are saying? Can you understand what they are attempting to write? It seems that we have a real communication breakdown from oral to written--and especially with children. Here are a few observations, some thoughts, and some interesting reading from an 1800s elementary school textbook.Reference: "McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader" (Revised Edition, 1879)*Photo by Ron Jones
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