Is Germany Raising a Generation of Illiterates?

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday April 13, 2014 @07:00AM from the me-write-pretty-one-day dept.

StartsWithABang (3485481) writes "Over at Starts With A Bang, the weekly question comes in from Germany, where we're informed: 'In Germany, many teachers have adopted a new way of teaching children to write properly. The way is called "Writing by Reading" and essentially says: Write as you wish, you're not bound by any rules. Recently, this way of teaching has been heavily criticized [link in German], but not before it has been "tested" on several years of school children.' The reading wars have been going on in the US, too, but will this wind up having a negative outcome? Or, as this piece argues, is it likely to be a wash?"

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Re:Can the writings be read? by nbauman · 2014-04-13 09:54 · Score: 1, Troll

People who are encouraged as kids to be sloppy about their writing tend to emerge from adolescence sloppy about their thinking too.
Can you cite this from a peer-reviewed publication, please? If this is really such a problem, surely you can back it up with scholarship.
No, he was encouraged during his adolescence to be sloppy about his thinking.