Shame that Franklin's alphabet didn't take off

THATS ABSOULTELY FANTASTIC...VERY USEFUL FOR TEACHERS

Gold nuggets to be had here. Just stay with it.

Fascinating!! This makes so much sense. Thank you. 🙏💗

I'm intrigued by 3 things in this ramble: "Archaic" "Orthography" and the Bot-voice. Yes, I could program my computer to say words in a bot-voice, rather than learning the "complex and confusing" orthography. I can also use a drill instead of a screwdriver, which I often do, and watch a documentary rather than looking up the references used to create the documentary.

439 views after 3 years. Such a shame. He was a total genius and well ahead of his time.

Could anyone direct me to a long term study on this subject? All I can find is people yakking about it. Show me evidence that reading makes you smarter.

Samuel blumenfed his legacy will live through all of us.

Ah if only B. Frank's alphabet hsd gotten some traction. Personally i think it just needed a few more pass thrus and it could've worked at least for the US. Both Portuguese & Spanish had mahor reforms but only Portuguese succeeded in applying it

My son never got the help he needed. At age 32 he is not a statistic of LD kids and is now incarcerated. Too many educators did not care and would not listen. The irony is that his sister became a teacher and mother, she figured out my grandson is dyslexic and so is her brother.

Fix your volume and quit blaming it on the victim.

I wonder if anything can be done at this late date to make the interviewer easier to hear. I hoped that what the interviewer said would be found in the transcription. Some of it was but not enough. 54:25 so both twain and shaw kind of come to the same point - they want to have a non-Roman alphabet that had no association with the traditional on. 54:30 it's hard to turn that corner . . . . this leads to i can't tell you how . . . 54:37 Interviewer? many people we've talked to and we're trying to bring up this subject i mean there's a one of the clips we show a 54:43 lot is one with Reid Lyon you may have read it in the transcript where i'm saying so you mean that our 54:52 most of our children are having their lives all but faded because of our negligence of this 54:58 archaic technology and he thinks about that for a second he 55:05 you mean lousy teaching he said no i mean the code itself. 55:11 we're not going to change the code i'm sure "boom" end of it (bad transcription?) 55:20 and as we talk to professors of English, we go through one after the other . . . some of them will say yes it would

Thank you

"artifacts of what we can measure" -- YES!

Thank you. "Education, with its supporting system of compulsory and competitive schooling, all its carrots and sticks, its grades, diplomas, and credentials, now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and 'fans,' driven more and more . . . by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and let people shape themselves. (Holt, 1976) "It was not, Holt said, that schools failed, as he had initially thought, but that they accomplished precisely what they set out to do - that is, keep children out of adult society, teach them to submit to authority, accept boredom, and categorize them into winners and losers in anticipation of their adult years. So, Holt insisted, the very nature of compulsory schooling necessarily eliminated the promise of real learning, especially for the poor, by building a wall between living and work. If U. S. society could, in fact, be deschooled, then the student would be responsible for his own education and no longer dependent on the teacher. Holt argued that this would also benefit the teacher in that he or she could then be free to develop the natural authority that comes from expertise rather than relying on coercive authority which prevails in institutional schooling. But Holt's purpose was not to suggest that existing schools could be reformed by implementing new teaching strategies, rather he sought to propose ways that children could learn apart from schools, such as through libraries, resource exchanges, and the realization of natural curiosity (Holt, 1976)." Source: nheri (dot) org A Radical Ideology for Home Education: The Journey of John Holt from School Critic to Home School Advocate: 1964-1985, Casey Patrick Cochran, Ph.D. Division of Educational Studies Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Very interesting, especially in light of James C Scott's research on the hill tribes of Southeast Asia and Korzybski's "time-binding."

starts here @6:48 thank you for posting this. fascinating.

Thank you so much for this fantastic explanation. I am looking for someone to explain this also with regards to multilingual learners at a broadcast where I interview experts on this matter.

Thank you, my friend!

Back again! Thank you my friend

the sound of silence ...art garfuncal 70 th song ...(people talking without speaking )....people tapping on their keyboards without speaking....with their thumbs.... thumbs represent the planet mars...the god of war.....

Thanks for publishing this interview. A friend is reading the book and this gave me the understanding needed to talk and learn from him.

Complex emotions do not rely on as much history that is Time with writing as is presupposed here. This is evident in early childhood experience; duty and ideas about commitment yes moreso, but that grows out of a far less literary or linguistic sophistication.

Miss you so much, Pop!

Great information. The interviewer sometimes took way too long to ask the question.

Althought I never met Mr. Blumenfeld in person, he was my mentory for 28 years. I credit much of my success as a public school bilingual teacher and private reading tutor to his phonetic approach to teaching reading. My Samuel L. Blumenfeld Reading Clinic webpage is dedicated to promoting his highly effective approach to teaching reading.

The oldest alphabetical writing is actually the maxims of Ptah hotep

1:20 the projection of this statement. No YOU DON’T HAVE A VOICE INSIDE!

This man’s crackpot theory’s are why I was institutionalized as a teenager! I’m glad that he at least will face Devine justice in the next world!

Can’t believe y’all didn’t edit this prior to posting. This guy is like the American Deleuze and we’re here talking about creaky chairs. Hilarious.

Could dance have been a precursor to speech? It would have had symbology, a need to understand mirroring vs. shadowing, and a spectrum of complexity to which children through experts could be exposed. It is, like language, a source of social cohesion, and hence would be adaptive in that sense, but it also leads to cognitive development, which is adaptive for individuals.

Franklin alphabet & Irish gaelic.

This video is highly underrated. Such a well explained reason to increase literacy among people. Well done!

😌 "promosm"

Fantastic video, full of insights. Where can we see more like this, of Zig unfiltered, sharing his big picture view of the whole thing?

Errata - at one point in the conversation I used the word nanoseconds. I was being figurative. The processing at issue is in the milliseconds range.

Interesting that Google chose to name their overarching company Alphabet.

That wasn’t long winded at all to me. I enjoyed every moment.

reading makes my mind sharper then normal thats for sure. when i dont read for a long period, i can feel that my mind works slower and producing less quality arguments. Its really a big difference. just choose yourself a subject and start reading. History, evolution, religions / theology etc.

Thank you, David. Thank you for the links to further learning resources! I loved listening to this conversation. I learned a lot. Especially about how to “differ your way to some kind of a common understanding”.

anyone has the book "A Companion to Baugh and Cable's A History of the English Language"?? I really need the pdf so bad

I love this man ❤❤❤thank you so much. What a powerful information!!

Thank you, David.

Way to upload this onto the internet without editing out her phone number....

Bet msm will not spread this.

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Thank you Dr.Keith.🙂

Visible Speech is a system of phonetic symbols developed by British linguist Alexander Melville Bell to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pKyagtCezr_HZqc.html

A shame we can't hear the questions! Thank you very much for this video.