On the miracle of learning to read as an adult - and the triumphs that followed... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Our Educational System by John Forkin above.
If more had been known about dyslexia at the time I went to school, my personal history as regards education might have been a whole lot different.
Some of the teachers I met were more like crowd controllers than teachers. Not so much carrot and stick, as stick, leather belt and fist, and the odd boot just to add variety.
I remember one educational genius who, one day, lifted me by the front of my pullover with his right hand, slapped me across the face with his left hand, and told me, in very unteacherly language, that he'd "learn me"....
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
