“She told the outlet: ‘I don’t do the whole Illiad. I assign books of The Illiad. I hope that some of them will read the whole thing.“
Remember when we used to boot people who couldn’t shoulder the load. You know, do the work. Absorb what must be absorbed. In what subjects is all of this dumbing down happening?
At MIT, we read the whole Odyssey (in English translation)! No excerpts, no cassette tapes! And I went there before the cellphone era.
My Humanities courses at MIT also taught me how to write. I didn’t find out how lousy my high school writing was until I went through these MIT courses. The writing I learned carried over into my science courses, all the way to my PhD thesis.
As for TikTok, it should be banned. If elected, Trump will do it!
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.