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Originally Posted by shalym
I never thought of teaching literature to be about cultural heritage...that's what the history, civics, etc classes are for. The literature classes I took in high school were more about how to deconstruct the books to find themes and symbolism.
I wish the classes HAD included some sort of discussion of history and cultural heritage...I probably would have enjoyed them more. As it was, if I hadn't already been a diehard reader it would have been enough to make me not ever want to read another book.
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Ditto. Double ditto. Triple ditto.
My literature classes were a lot like autopsies.
Or the traditional killing and tear down of frogs in biology.
Equally icky. It's not as if the frogs were doing us harm...
In contrast, I had a physics teacher who started the year with a giant six foot slide rule, taught us the physical side of logarithms and trig tables and moved on to the mathematical and historical sides of physics. No calculators allowed. Nary a sleepy head in his classes.
Context and accessibility matters in education.