Mairin Schuman’s Reviews > Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education > Status Update

“The problem…with what he calls the ‘drill and kill’ method of language arts programs is not that they fail to give skills to decode words and write correct sentences but that they destroy the delight of learning in the process; and, as it is an axiom that learning requires…a high interest level, the scientific system of reading and writing threatens to defeat the very goals promoted by such systems.”