We Texans are clever at hiding our learning difficulties. Thanks to Karin Montin for the tip.
Teacher hid illiteracy during 17-year career | World news | The Guardian: "A retired teacher who now spends his time campaigning for improved literacy has revealed that he taught classes for 17 years even though he could not read or write.
Despite his illiteracy, John Corcoran worked as a teacher then as a property developer until the age of 48, when he decided to seek help. He used oral and visual stimuli with his pupils, rather than words, and insists he was a very successful teacher.
'There wasn't the written word in there. I always had two or three teacher's assistants in each class to do board work or read the bulletin,' he said in a television interview."
3 comments:
i see nothing at all odd about this. if the kids cant read - ever - i dont see why the teachers should need to be able to. that would be unfair to the illiterate dumbasses around him. i hail this man for charting new territory in the fertile gowing fields of comulsory education. he is teaching us all how stupid we all are. God bless him.
I wonder what it means, he used oral stimuli rather than words? I didn't notice that the first time I read the piece.
Good question.
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