Egona virus

There is a virus that has been going around the US for decades which has spread around the world. It appears to affect Caucasian Educators more than others.


The virus is called the Egona virus.

Disease caused by - Ego

Symptoms :

1. Lack of Clarity

2. Non Acceptance

3. Half knowledge with Know it all Attitude

3. Jumbled Thoughts and Words

4. Sarcasm to retaliate

5. Mock to offend

Treatment - Self Awareness, Self-Worth, Self Confidence...

An arrogant educator from Australia - Dr David Zyngier

Here are tweets from another arrogant educator from Australia who thinks he knows everything there is to know about education. Many of the Caucasian educators from Australia are as arrogant as many from the US and the UK.

"Research' is what nobody else has thought

“Research is to see what everybody else sees, and think what nobody else has thought.” 

The above was said by Hungarian biochemist, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, who first isolated vitamin C.

I, Luqman Michel, have thought and seen what no one else in the world has seen or thought. The Caucasians have a problem even understanding it.

A third unsolicited book review

Here is a third book review from someone in the US which I happened to read a few days ago. It is followed by my comments. You may read all the three book reviews here.

Stanley B. Hooper

3.0 out of 5 stars

Kill Usual Letter Sound outs for Children

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2020

Jeff Bowers vs Jennifer Buckingham - The Reading War

There has been tweets by Jeff Bowers on Tweeter for a few days on his response to Jennifer Buckingham’s post entitled: “The grass is not greener on Jeffrey Bowers’ side of the fence: Systematic phonics belongs in evidence-based reading programs”.

This is another example of what these so-called educators write on without knowing what they are talking about.

Dyslexia vs Shut down kids

In one of my posts on LinkedIn a visitor, Graeme Wadlow, had made the following comment. Here is a link to the article he has referred to and for those who insist on Research reports there is a whole list of research reports links attached.

What is Dyslexia?

Discourse with Iowa reading research centre

I have written many emails to many universities and professors from 2010 to no avail.

On 16.1.2020 I wrote to Iowa reading research centre on FaceBook as well as directly to an email address provided on the internet. The following is our conversation.

My YouTube posts

I am proud to announce that my YouTube video is listed in the Top 20 Dyslexia YouTube Channels
To Follow in 2020.



My latest video can be found here.

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No child left behind

This morning I saw a tweet by Sue Lloyd. She is one lady who teaches phonics the way it should be taught.

'Evidence based' policy and it's absurdity

On 16.2.2020, I read an article on evidence in the Sydney morning herald on the internet.

Here are some excerpts from the article.

Presentation to teachers at St.Francis Convent

Yesterday, 15.2.2020 I made a presentation to St.Francis Convent in Kota Kinabalu.
There were 9 teachers who attended my presentation.

The teachers were glad that I had made the presentation and presented me with a small token and a certificate.

Top 50 Dyslexia Blogs

Recently I submitted my Blog name to Feedspot.

I am happy to announce that the founder of Feedspot, Mr. Anuj Agarwal,

and his panel selected my blog as one of the Top 50 Dyslexia Blogs on the web.

Here is the website where my blog is listed as one of the top 50 Dyslexia Blogs.

https://blog.feedspot.com/dyslexia_blogs/

Scientific support for my findings

Yesterday one Jammy Jacobson whose profile says she is a Certified Academic Language Therapist at The READ Center commented on one of my comments in a group on FaceBook I belong called ‘Science of Reading: The Community’.

This was her comment: 

Your posts seem to be the opposite of the science of reading. You tend to attack scientific research and claim your own anecdotes are superior to the work of actual scientists.

Verifiable 'Truths'

Here are some extracts of what one of my connections, Anne McDonald, had written in LinkedIn. She is the Founder, owner, Scotland Study Centre.

“…We have the right to believe whatever we want, no matter how illogical, but we should spread only objective information and verifiable "truths." Spreading unsubstantiated belief systems and propaganda is dangerous.  We need to develop the critical thinking and language skills necessary to distinguish verifiable facts from propaganda/beliefs.

General belief systems aren't a threat, but it's important to combat incorrect and dangerous views when they have a chance of pervading greater society."

Confusion due to many sounds of letters

The second reason why many kids shut down from learning to read, is that teachers do not tell them at the onset that most letters of the English alphabet represent many sounds.

Having learned one sound of a letter and then when a second sound is introduced without the kid being informed that that same letter represents more than one sound, the kid shuts down. Kids predisposed to shutting down disengage from learning to read and are then wrongly classified as dyslexic.