I didn't like analyzing those novels in school, but it did deepen my love of reading for pleasure afterwards, and I don't begrudge the effort it took. Can I have learned it without the drudgery? I don't know, that's not my department. Education is a mystery. There is the saying "Education is what remains after you have forgotten everything you learned in school." I have to imagine that you don't want the forgetting to occur too soon, though, for anything to remain.
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