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Originally Posted by kandwo
I like her point about people bashing the classics. I've grown up in an anti-elitist environment, where reading classics was frowned upon, genre literature was good, etc. I found that sort of sentiment highly detrimental and it was a breath of fresh air discovering the likes of Dostoevsky on my own.
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I didn't like mot of the classics I read in school. That's why a lot of people won't read them or try to find ones they may like. School puts them ff and I can fully understand that. Teachers pick the worst ones and then make us read them. The books read in school should be more relevant and better books. I did read
The Brothers Karamazov in school and I really disliked it. There were other books I disliked. I also disliked Shakespeare. So I do think it;s the fault of the teachers for picking rubbish. Not everything was rubbish, but most was.
If I had picked classics myself, I could have stopped reading any I didn't like and found ones I liked. But I do feel that schools turn kids off to the classics so they don't want to find ones they like and I think also because of schools picking classics that are not good, they can and do cause kids not to want to read for pleasure.
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I think it's good reading those kinds of books in school. They're supposed to make you think and confront your ideas about the world and the people who inhibit it. Then discuss those thoughts presented to you with others in class. Of course, this all falls apart if your classmates are not up for having a constructive discussion or are unprepared or the teacher doesn't know how to lead the class; but that's true for any subject. School is supposed to make you think, especially in ways that you wouldn't stumble upon on your own (otherwise what's the point?).
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I'll disagree. If you want kids to confront their ideas about the world, you have to have them reading books that are more relevant to the world as it is now and not as it was. That's part of the problem. Teachers need to pick more modern books that kids can relate to in some way.