Students around the globe earned among the lowest average scores ever in science, reading and mathematics on the Program for International Student Assessment.
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The season’s new releases give us a cultural road map, but the most rewarding reading, listening and watching comes from the detours.
Jonathan Franzen’s novel, which put a Midwestern family under the microscope, came out a week before 9/11. Why are we still talking about it?
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It can be useful to see reality as malleable.
One reporter traveled to understand how it is taught now.
I traveled around the country to find out if “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” still has a place in the classroom.
Great works of literature are not self-help books. The post What’s the Point of Reading? Just Reading. appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag What’s the Point of Reading? Just Reading. Great works of literature are not self-help books. TakiMag Credit: Reinhold Leitner When, as a young man, I applied to be an English teacher, I recall being asked during interviews why it was so vital to interest my (hypothetical) charges in literature. I felt obliged to respond with what I intuited were the expected answers: “To teach them human empathy via the medium of prose,” or some such pablum. But did I really believe this? Personally, the only reason I have ever read books is because I enjoy reading books. De gustibus non disputandum est; matters…Open