ABSTRACT
Literacy can be thought of as something of a mixed blessing. Writing enables one to express them and communicate. To understand how a particular child can apparently find writing and spelling easier than reading, educational psychologists have first to identify the significant elements which are likely to feature in the child's personal agenda. One of the most common problems about writing that occurs particularly in the more advanced stages of education is the problem of meeting the deadline. Children experience the different aspects of reading and writing in various positive and negative ways. Many children have resistances to learning because of unconscious anxieties about what they would reveal about themselves what kind of messages they will open themselves to. This applies not just to the initial process of learning to read and write, but also to the blocks and difficulties which literate people encounter with everything from dissertations to novels.
