Learning to Read

There is a lot of discussion today about learning to read; phonics as opposed to traditional methods.

I was unusual in that my father was an old-fahioned letterpress printer. I can still smell the laed and the ink!

So I learnt to read and write with big wooden poster letters. Now these are backwards, so b is the reverse of d etc. I’ve been told it shouldn’t work and should have given me problems.

It didn’t.

On the other hand, I do think it is one of the reasons why I have a well-developed ability to visualise in three dimensions.