How Important is Spelling?

[Article] In some parts of the world, concepts and content are pushed more in schools than spelling and grammar. Are we breeding future geniuses, or are we borrowing trouble for ourselves?


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As a school child of the late 1970s, I remember the amount of emphasis that was put on the importance of proper spelling and grammar. We had spelling books for each age group, containing lists of words that we had to memorize almost by rote, with tests at the end of every week. If we wrote anything,...
This article was published Wednesday, 8 August, 2007 by AFP
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How Important is Spelling?


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