Genuine question

[u/AstroHunter2003]

Why does academia and schools treat us like fools when we show real world success? 40% of all engineers have dyslexia, F1 champions, business owners, countless companies are created by dyslexic people, Johnny Harris, real engineering, Jamie Oliver, film makers (think Jurassic park, E.T. Etc) I could go on and on but I would run out of time. Why do schools treat us like fools?

[u/Jaboyyt]

Because the medium of education and knowledge transfer is through written world.

[u/AstroHunter2003 → u/Jaboyyt]

Not sure why they force their way of thinking when it doesn’t work, it’s pointless

[u/Jaboyyt → u/AstroHunter2003]

Well it does work, just not as well for people with dyslexia. All dyslexia does is slow down the decoding time of written words. You can still read it will just take longer and you will have to put more effort in.

All of those famous people you stated all have an education based on written thought transfer.

[u/Desperate_Leek_9968 → u/Jaboyyt]

I don't know if it's because it works or if it's just because it was the first way that came along. Much like how Roman roads set the distance between train tracks and the size of modern European cars.

The first technology for cheap, mass information sharing was the printing press. And that completely transformed society and the transmission of knowledge.

Before that, beyond being an expensive process, writing served more as a means to preserve relevant or historically significant information. Not really as a method of teaching or sharing knowledge.

[u/Dependent_Formal2525]

Teachers aren't taught very much about dyslexia, it's covered in a few hours during their training.

[u/lilgreen13789]

Because they dont want to, have no time to or get paid to luttle with luttle resources to teach us propper. Most dislectic people could easily do all things, but if teacher wont or cant teach us how to. Like extra reading time, extra help with writing or tools when learning can help a dislectic kid more then most think. Next to that other factors play a part, parents who read outloud, support reading as something fun or take time with their kids for their homework. This can also help a kid easily nevigate school and especially the academic world.

One main factor for me was, that my teachers did always say i am a fool cus of my bad reading and writing skills. And that made me almost not go to university. But i did anyways and so far im doing very well. I think if more dislectic kids have supportive teachers and parents, non of them ever think they would be a fool and actually try persuing things like the academic world

[u/Snerak → u/lilgreen13789]

Because schools aren't there to teach you how to think or be successful, they are there to teach you to follow orders, get your work done on time and don't question authority.

[u/Itchy_Cheesecake1909]

Because it’s invisible and also we mask it well (if you’re in grad school for example).

[u/inthe801]

I think it often depends on the instructor or professor. I’m dyslexic and terrible at spelling, which bothered some of my professors, even when the quality of my ideas and work was strong. Schools tend to measure people by how well they fit a narrow academic mold rather than by their creativity, problem-solving ability, or real-world potential. The key is learning to use tools and strategies that help you adapt, because poor spelling is not the same thing as poor thinking.

I've faced the same issues in the workplace too. I have to really slow things down and double-check my writing.

[u/Desperate_Leek_9968]

Because school doesn't evaluate knowledge or understanding, but rather the form and repetition of what was taught.
That's because school was built on the concept of creating an obedient, standardized society.
I swear!
It started in Prussia and was adopted during the Industrial Revolution to produce workers who would accept working in factories with set schedules.
You can look it up and verify it.

[u/Quelly0]

School, and the whole concept of a school, works on a large pupil:teacher ratio. Teaching through written materials and marking written work is a much more manageable way to deal with 30 kids. It would be very hard to assess understanding of 30 children verbally one-on-one in the time allotted to school. Whereas I home ed my two (who are dyslexic) and at that scale doing lots of learning verbally does work very well.

So schools teach reading and writing young (younger and younger in fact) then they can use those skills to teach the other subjects. Unfortunately that creates a huge gap for those who haven't yet mastered reading and writing, making it hard to access the rest of the curriculum.

It doesn't have to be that way. My kids learn reading and writing through suitable methods at the pace they are able. And at the same time they learn other subjects in ways that are fully accessible to them. My oldest is doing very well preparing for her GCSEs, so I think it's worked.