- Jun 13, 2007
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I have watched this video 3 times.
My mother says she taught me and my sister to read when we were 3 years old. I don't remember and my sister was 4 years older. But I do remember reading Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer, I think I was 4.
One thing about being a kid is whatever is going on around you is accepted as "normal" even if you don't like it. There is no other point of comparison. So my mother sent me to a Catholic elementary school but neither of my parents suggested any books to read all through grammar school. But when I started reading science fiction in 4th grade my mother called it "something crazy."
Did she trust the White Nuns to do appropriate "education?" Who decides what that is? Someone here said SF was written by white men. I knew that when I was 9 years old. But the nuns never said squat about science and technology. My sister told me that a nun said, "science and religion don't mix". The funny thing is I arranged for some computers to be donated to the school in the 90s. The company I was working for was upgrading and getting rid of the old ones. Do computers and religion mix?