In my mind reading is the one subject where the child can’t afford to get it wrong. If you don’t do science education well, but the kids learn how to read well,

In my mind reading is the one subject where the child can’t afford to get it wrong. If you don’t do science education well, but the kids learn how to read well, they can always learn science by reading. Same with history, literature, and virtually every subject with possible exception of math. Reading is the key to unlock everything else. As such, we should be very conservative in changing what has been proven to work. The article mentions how new theories came out in the 60’s and displaced the phonics based system which had been proven to work, leading to literally millions of people with an intellectual handicap due to poor reading skills.