We wait until children have extensive experience of spoken language before we try to teach them to read and write. By then, they're eager.
My pedagogical motto is Alphonse Karr's elegant remark: "Love is a sport in which the hunter must contrive to have the quarry in pursuit."
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Just as the lover must contrive to have the object of her desire in pursuit, so must the mentor contrive to have her protege in pursuit.
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Behold a master creator of just the sort of contrivance I mean: the great John Hunter, pedagogue extraordinare.http://bit.ly/1Pn1UEN
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