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Not fair to blame teachers. Do parents sit and read in the evening in front of their children? For all the self proclaimed independence of youngsters they do largely copy their elders, eventually. The problem is they do what the elders do, not what they say. For this argument I need to exclude the people on this forum for obvious reasons.
Funny thing happening in Yeoville, one of the immigrant suburbs of Johannesburg. People are very poor in this suburb and come from all over Africa and speak dozens of languages yet there are 3 or 4 active poetry clubs/societies where people meet not to discuss poetry but to listen to readings of each others poetry. I bet the children of these people will be readers.
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