This morning I heard an interview excerpt on the BBC from the early 1960s in which Agatha Christie was explaining how she learned to write: "I had absolutely no education at all up until about age 16. I was left to my own imagination and, bored most of the time, sat around inventing stories for myself." She was unschooled.

Many schooling mothers have noticed that pushing language arts on young children, even teaching them to read before age 10 or 11, may be intellectually limiting--stultifying is the word, I think.

There is absolutely no credible science to backup elementary pedagogy.