How I Learned to Read

susan is 35, happily married and the mother of four. She went to college at 17 on a full scholarship awarded to her for being a national merit finalist. After college, she completed a master of divinity, a three year theological degree, then a master of arts and english literature. As i look back on the ed tion i gave her, i can see that it follows a pattern that has mostly disappeared from public education. I spent a lot of time with her in one on one discussion and interaction. We learned spelling rules, mathematics and basic logic.We followed an unfashionably strict grammar book and diagrammed sentences of increasing complexity. we kept science notebooks and time lines so