11 yo asked why he had to learn spellings. I told him honestly that although spelling may not really matter, if he couldn't spell, people would think he was stupid. And that was sufficiently motivating.
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There is a connection between spelling and being smart though. Most people learn spelling by reading, and as Charlie Munger said, "In my whole life, I have known no wise people — over a broad subject matter area — who didn’t read all the time. None. Zero."
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Had a convo with a friend about reading vs audio-books. They wanted to get through as many books as poss but I think that completely misses the actual enjoyment of reading. And you don't learn spellings. Don't read to complete, read because you enjoy it. Completion is a byproduct
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Conversely, if you read widely and at a higher education level than your peers, you'll learn the spellings but not the pronunciation, which will lead to a different kind of snobbishness - an ill-informed unreflective snobbishness, but snobbishness all the same.
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Then what do you say to people like me that read voraciously from a young age but struggled to spell? Learning diverse, I think they call it. Kids with spiky profiles.
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Ya, memory and G don't seem so correlated. Plenty of absent minded professor types. My memory has gigantic and very weird deficits, but most would never guess.
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If you memorize isolated “here’s how to do this word” it’s painful and arbitrary. But if you absorb the principles like language of origin, you’ll be learning a lot along with the spellings. “This word has a ph because it’s Greek, which means it’s connected to this other word...”
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Right. You have to grow your tree of knowledge rather than collecting fact leaves. If you focus on growing the tree, the leaves will grow themselves.
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A book is a time capsule - once in writing those concepts will be transmitted through the ages to anyone that picks that book up. It's going to be interesting how the internet age will affect that, the rules of several thousand years of passing along human knowledge are changing
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Pual, smtmsoeis tgnhis you say and tnihk are splmpiy prue bhsiullt! I slitl lkie you tguhoh.
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The mental memoization mechanism gets all screwed up if you have dyslexia. I otherwise agree.
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Unless he chooses to become a doctor.. misspelling is 100% fair game in that world
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