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Originally Posted by issybird
Reasons to teach books include general cultural knowledge and appreciation and the ability to engage with a text, to question it and to understand it.
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But the problem is that making people read fiction doesn't teach them that, unless the teacher is very, very good and usually he/she isn't. I didn't get anything valuable at all from my school literature lessons, nor did anyone else I know. It's not that way with language lessons, mathematics, biology etc. But it is with literature lessons. Of course you may have had a different experience; then you're lucky.