Fascinating article. Adults could learn from some of those maxims as well. Reading and learning is a lifelong endeavour!

My own experience always makes me annoyed by things like this.

I was utterly unable to learn to read with any phonic-based system, despite several different attempts with different “systems” of phonics. (Frankly, phonics continued to make no sense to me until I was learning foreign languages.)

Instead, in first grade about 15 minutes into the first reading class I made the mental leap that a printed word was a word, and I started memorizing them. From then on, I generally only need to have someone tell me what a word was one time, and I could read it for the rest of my life. (Now I use a dictionary rather than having someone tell me what a word is, but it’s the same thing. Using phonics to turn a printed word into a word I already know as a spoken word basically never happens.