When I have explained everything and they still ask me, all over again, “Why do you start them so young?” I say, “Why would you deprive a child of such great joy for so long?” Shinichi Suzuki (Originator of the method to teach violin to young children)
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Steinberg, M.T. (1995). Teaching Japanese Toddlers to Read Kanji and Kana. In: Taylor, I., Olson, D.R. (eds) Scripts and Literacy. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1162-1_13
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