• The Illiterate Teacher

  Contributed by Michael Walther on May 24, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Denomination: Lutheran

THE ILLITERATE TEACHER

It’s foolish to be a pretender. Just ask John Corcoran. John never learned to read in elementary school. Somehow the teachers just kept passing him along. When he got to high school he became at expert at cheating. He turned in other people’s work. He said he couldn’t read letters, but he could read the system, and he could read people. He learned how to fake his way through college and graduated from Texas Western College with a teaching degree. For the next seventeen years he taught high school students without being able to read or write. Somehow he always arranged to have others do the reading and writing for him. John eventually left teaching, and he did learn to read and write, but his story is an amazing example of how it is possible to be a pretender.

(Charisse Yu, "Retired Teacher Reveals He Was Illiterate Until Age 48," 10News.com)