Should we teach reading and writing? Mark Treadwell argues we shouldn't. His argument is that it takes so much time to time and energy to teach reading and writing and by the end too many students feel they are stupid. Furthermore, with modern technology that allows us to record videos and audio very easily, it simply isn't necessary to read or write. We can gather information in other ways. Instead, we should spend our time teaching ideas and concepts, in ways that don't rely on rote memory, but instead rely on our ability to sequence and pattern. Abilities, he says, our brains do much better then memorize. Mark forced me to question why we do what we do, and that in itself is a good take away from his session.