Apparently, kids today aren’t being taught how to read a book. I have no words.
Being unable to read a book in its entirety means that you are incapable to following a logical conclusion. You can’t start at point A and get to point B. And you certainly can’t figure out truth from fiction if you cannot see the entire problem. No wonder kids today are so fucked up. THEY CAN’T READ!
This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.
Just off the top of my head, my senior year in publik skool, I read Moby Dick, The Good Earth, Heart of Darkness and various other books that we then sat around and discussed. Prior to that I was reading Brave New World and Animal Farm. And I read for pleasure as well, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and tons of books revolving around D&D which my friends and I played often. The Dragonlance Series drained my allowance in my teen years.
Being unable to read makes you dependent on the people who CAN read. And all of this is being done on purpose.
The publik skool sistim is one of America’s worst enemies. But parents still send their kids into the pit of despair, day after day. And then they wonder why their kids aren’t alright.
I do apologize for my prolonged absence, as well as short posts. I’m dealing with quite a bit here at the Ragin’ Casa. Hopefully there will be more later.
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The entire reason for Carter and the Democrat party in creating the Dept. Of Education was to control what was taught in classrooms. To teach children how not to think, instead to just accept whatever pablum was fed to them whether in the classroom or via the media. It took a few decades for the desired results but here we are. Tyrants have taken Aristotle’s words and twisted them for their own evil ends.
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I was aware that “education” has changed since I left school, but I didn’t know this. No book reports in seventh grade? No Shakespeare in ninth, tenth, eleventh? No Orwell, Huxley, Golding, Bronte, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Hardy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Steven Crane, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, James Agee? Great God in heaven, what’s the point of making the kids take English classes if they don’t have to read?