Luqman's musings

Not long ago I listened to a TED talk by Julia Galef . Now, that I have received a response from the Ministry of Education, Singapore, I think this topic is relevant and fits in with what I have been writing. 

Yesterday, 21.12.2018, a cruise ship – Diamond Princess – docked at Kota Kinabalu port. My wife and I met up with some friends from Australia. One of my friends, Iain Loganathan, who had bought my book ‘Shut Down Kids’ told me that he had bought my book but has yet to read it as his two children are not dyslexic. Well, firstly that book is not on dyslexia but about kids who are unable to read because of confusion as a result of wrong teaching of sounds of alphabets by teachers. Secondly, one does not have to have dyslexic kids or kids who cannot read due to any reason at all to read a book on why kids shut down from learning to read.

One of the commenters on Nitu Bhojwani's post had said: “Assertiveness is a state of Balanced Emotions. It's a way how you constructively use your Anger.” When you write as I do in a blog there is no place for anger. One may get angry when talking or discussing with another. However when one writes a blog one is usually calm and collected. I usually write whatever I want to write and check it again before posting it the following day. As such I can be assertive without being angry.

Here are extracts of a talk given by Sue Lloyd who is a committee member of the Reading Reform Foundation of UK. You may listen to the whole talk here .