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Originally Posted by AprilHare
You believe setting books to read spoils them for children, the same way, say, taking kids on school trips to places spoils the places for children?
Actually I found the best experience of books only occurred when it wasn't on the compulsory reading list, e.g. in my case Pride and Prejudice.
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I agree that assigning books can spoil it for
some children, but I've never heard of a field trip spoiling the location for a child.
I avoided my classroom reading lists like the plague. Not because I wasn't interested in the books, but because I knew the teachers would teach them to death (and I never made lower than a "B" on the follow up exams), therefore negating my need to actually read the books. I spent the time reading other books, for fun, instead. I believe,
The Fountainhead and
Little Women were the only two classroom books I actually read at the time they were assigned.