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To: koan who wrote (494186)	7/9/2022 9:17:30 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540709

>> dyslexia and struggle with languages. This is probably due to bad teaching IMHO - we all learn to communicate eventually to some degree. I'm empirically dyslexic, possibly on some disability spectrum. We all have challenges and gifts. The problems I have had in education were due to people that had fixed teaching styles and didn't know how to interact with people who worked in a different contextual physical / tactile / experiential space. I can hear more than one thread of talking but can only formulate answers to one at a time - with some "buffer" of what I heard. Or if concentrating - I am functionally "deaf". Oddly - I got second language credit for high proficiency in computer languages. No kidding. I don't think they do that anymore - but there is a rationality to it. It is communication modality with strict grammar, potentially an infinite vocabulary, and strict syntax. Immersion has to work whether it is for computers or people - if you need to do everything in a second language - you will learn how to ask a system to give you control over a process, or a person where to go to the toilet, and other necessities of life. I feel like Spanish is something I could have learn if immersed. I hear some of it but don't have any fluency. I never HAD to speak it - so I was more of a spectator. The final point about "humanities" - I agree should be learned - but WAY, WAY earlier than college back in high school - however, I know you disagree, but many people are just to dumb to participate. Anecdotes aren't data - but here is my context. I have known or been related to a number of incredibly well educated and articulate people. Most were nice. Some weren't - but almost all of them could debate any ideas you'd present All this exposure / talent doesn't necessarily create a "good" people despite everything you suggest would do so. William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal come to mind. Both knew a lot but couldn't stop being an asshole.