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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That's kind of what I thinking. I don't really consider it English Lit's "job" to instill a love of reading.
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I've always been a little confused by the "Literature class should equal teaching-children-to-love-reading class" notion that so many seem to hold. In my opinion, the love for reading is usually instilled long before children start getting graded on what they get out of "boring" books they don't want to read.
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I personally know a lot of people who read a lot during their youth, but stopped reading altogether when the mandatory list was encountered at high school (or rather, the Dutch equivalent of that).
And no, a literature class doesn't need to teach children to love reading, but it most certainly also doesn't need to put them off it.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why do you think that reading something like "Macbeth" would scare someone away from reading? I remember absolutely loving it when we read it at school.
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I've never read Macbeth but we have similar types of books here. And there were a few I simply hated but was required to read (I admit, I skipped most of those). While others I loved and even read more than was required.