Jumping the Gun

There's a discovery that when we read our eyes don't read the whole word. Our eyes fix on two points in a word and the brain processes that word so we understand it.
The article can be found here:

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-09-10T083524Z_01_L07935239_RTRUKOC_0_US-EYEMOVEMENTS-READING.xml&src=nl_usmorningdigest

And the intelligent scientists' reaction is to want to teach children to read like that.

Wait a minute, this is NOT a reading strategy employed by just any reader! This strategy is used by efficient readers! And efficient readers are able to do this because over the years, after using all the strategies of slowly reading, their eyes and brains have discovered and assimilated into instinct what are redundant strategies. And thus intelligent scientists observe what seem to be simplified mechanical movements associated with superior reading abilities.

No, these are not simplified mechanical movements. These are movements of increased efficacy born of years of practice, not a short cut!

How do they imagine they can teach children - and children with reading difficulties - to read by locating spots?

Just as you can't teach someone to punch just by teaching the mechanics of movements, angle of fist, height of the arm in relation to the body... No, a punch is more than angles and movements. It also involves speed and strength born of years of practice - the muscles of the arms, wrists and hands, at the very least, must grow to be strong so that the arm can throw the punch fast and strong. And be deadly.

A perfect punch - in terms of angles and posture - is useless if there is no power in it. Perfect mechanised eye movements in reading is fruitless without the internalised ability to sum up the meaning of words that the eyes take in just through glancing at print!