How Modern Schools Make Terrible Writers (Deliberately)
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Hello, my name is Hilary Layne. I've been writing stories and studying stories as long as I've been able to read. With this channel I'll be examining the world of books and stories as well as the culture of storytelling itself.
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The American education system definitely has problems, but what if those problems have also killed modern writers' ability to write well? Why is everyone so reliant on Chat GPT and Grammarly? Why can't anyone write well? To answer, we have to go back to school... Here is the page on my website where I have collected all the sources, as well as additional sources: https://www.hilarylayne.com/p/very-carefully-educated-to-be-idiots Here is the link to the October Reading Recommendation List: https://bookshop.org/lists/october-reading-recommendations And also my bookshop.com affiliate link: https://bookshop.org/shop/hilarylayne (I apologize for the video quality this time. My computer declared war on me for about 12 hours.) 0:00 - The Problem 5:37 - Education Is Failing 6:25 - Critical Literacy 9:33 - Real Literacy Is Dying 17:00 - "Critical Literacy": Generative Words/Themes 19:05 - Is Phonics Better? 26:49 - The Neurology of Literacy 29:40 - Critical Literacy Adults 39:48 - Critical Literacy Writers 42:07 - "Prosody" 48:55 - What Should We Do About It?
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