And you know, you used to go and learn the three R's reading, writing and arithmetic. And I mean, that used to be like the core of what you were learning. Yeah, if you look at a novel idea, by the way, what a novel idea, you go, you go to school to learn to read, writing to arithmetic, like, isn't that amazing? That someone came up with that curriculum one and then we just decide to abandon it. Right. Well. And there is a literacy crisis. The numbers of students coming out of school who can't read, who don't have the ability to read, is staggering. (15:43–15:56)
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Asserts that the traditional curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic has been abandoned.
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