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Gage would agree with this because he had his teacher, Miss Hurd, try to help him improve with his writing skills.

The next author was Malcolm X. His writing was also about his life. He wrote about how he was illiterate while he was in prison, but to pass his time he decided to learn how to become literate. He started this by reading the dictionary. While he read the dictionary, he would copy each word down so, with time he would memorize the words in the dictionary. Eventually, he learned better penmanship and became a fast writer with all of his practice. He also learned English from doing this and was able to read.

I would say, that Malcolm X would agree with the educational merits of Graff’s proposal. He would most likely agree

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