Many persons consider that to learn to read a language, so full of anomalies and difficulties as our own, is a task which should not be imposed too soon on the childish mind. But, as a matter of fact, few of us can recollect how or when we learned to read: for all we know, it came by nature, like the art of running; and not only so, but often mothers of the educated classes do not know how their children learned to read...Whereby it is plain, that this notion of the extreme difficulty of learning to read is begotten by the elders rather than by the children.
Home Education, 1935
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