Phyllis Schlafly, the author of First Reader and Child Abuse in the Classroom, taught her six children to read before they entered school, and all had outstanding academic careers. She explains that, "A Great Debate has been going on for years between the advocates of Phonics (i.e., teaching the child to sound out the syllables of the English language and put them together like building blocks) and the advocates of Whole Language (i.e., teaching the child to guess at the words by looking at the pictures and to substitute words that fit the context of the story)." As a result of the virtually wholesale acceptance of the Whole Language approach, "30% to 40% of urban children can't read at all and more than 50% can't read at their grade level." Can this be an organized, deliberate attempt to breed a generation (or more) of illiterates? Wouldn't the Evil One approve?
