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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Personally I agree with you.
Not to mention unless English teachers have changed, most pick boring very dry reading.
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I think the English teachers are people who loved the classics in school, and so they keep picking them. It can also be a problem with the school system in the country; many countries, including the Netherlands (in my time, at least) have a list of books of which teachers are required to select books. If the books are not on the list, you're not allowed to read it as exam material.
Obviously it's done to make exams doable, as a teacher can't read all of the books ever written. I do think, however, that a teacher can ask questions about a book even if he hasn't read it.
For example, he can ask: tell me about the protagonist. Then, you'd expect an answer that tells about the protagonists thoughts, strong points, weak points, behaviour in different situations, why the reader thinks the character behaved like that. You wouldn't expect them to tell you "and then he did this, and then this, and then he went to there, and then the story was done."