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Originally Posted by crich70
Steve Allen wrote an article once about having to read Moby Dick for school. He hated it because it was assigned reading and he wasn't ready for it yet. Yrs later he went back to it and loved it. Schools assign reading as a group effort and not everyone likes the same genre so they get to dislike reading.
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I just searched to see if kids taught in the open classrooms of the 1960's and 1970's, in which children could mostly read what they wanted, read more for pleasure as adults, but I can't find anyone doing such a long-term test of your hypothesis. It seems a plausible, if difficult, research project.
I recall not just assigned reading, but also being forced to sit through boring classroom films. Could that be why I'm not all that much interested in the movies, or TV, today?
Of course, I think the answer to that last question is no.
I wonder if limiting screen time works.