Posted on 10/05/2024 11:02:40 AM PDT by Morgana
This has been building for decades. It is NOT a product of the social media age - but social media makes it worse.
When I was teaching at a university 30 years ago i was shocked by how many students admitted never reading, rarely reading, etc. I remember my shock when I heard a graduating senior say, while standing in our grand old library with more than 2 million volumes, “I’m a senior and I’ve never been in here before.”
“What the hell is wrong with kids today???”
Parents.
She told the outlet: 'I don't do the whole Illiad. I assign books of The Illiad.UC Berkeley prof teaching Homer? Now and then a glimmer of hope peeps through the haze.
Even I don’t do Cliff notes! That is too lazy for me.
I got the unabridged book on cassette and would listen to it several times.
After reading (listening to) Inferno I said to one professor “there is a place in Dante’s Inferno for used car salesmen” That professor smiled and more or less agreed with me.
A slight glimmer of hope for studious types. Those “vidiots’ and thc smokers are basically incapable of succeeding in the unforgiving world. The studious hard workers are going to have all the jobs. And their kids will be a close second...
That’s what I was thinking. The adults set the standard and if you can’t cope, you fail. Welcome the the world.
Sad what we’ve become.
It took me 9 months to read The Brothers Karamazov. If it wasn’t for the innocent brother I would have ditched the book. I was going to read Dante’s Inferno, until I realized that it was written in prose.
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