Posted on 12/31/2020 9:45:15 AM PST by Kaslin
It seems to me that most Literature Classes were designed by people who hate their students.
The assignments in those classes are dreadful stories and books that successfully discourage students from reading in the future.
Picking trash for lit courses because the author checks off boxes for perversion and mental illness will only make this worse.
• One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
The woke left rejects Homer, and the rest of the Western canon, because they hate any art that doesn’t reinforce their narrow-minded ideology.
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The woke rejects Jesus . . . that’s why we are in this mess. We are heading toward the finish line. Be ready. https://www.patburt.com/
There must be foundational morals involved.
Plato is an old bull male who was racist and owned slaves - nobody should listen to that old smelly fart.
“Control over stories is control over what people believe and who they are.”
Western nations didn’t have a right to their own culture.
Only Africa and China had a right to their own culture.
Students—and adults—need to know the classics to help form their minds and their hearts!!!!
Then there are the Divine Liturgy and other prayers of the Church, the Bible, and the Fathers and the other Saints!!!!
People without such formation might well be stupid and perverse enough to vote for the serial cheater biden and the immoral communist harris! PHOOEY!!!!
Jackson - “Kill ’em. Kill ’em all.”
That headline is more than a bit misleading. Teachers don’t have the power to “dump” any course of study. That’s all decided by school boards and state Departments of Education.
So if a school board wants Classic Literature to be taught, it will be taught. But if the board doesn’t want Classic Literature to be taught, it will not be taught.
Quick story: I taught high school physics for many years. And one year - for some unfathomable reason - the board decided that torque was no longer to be taught in physics class.
But torque is a central concept in mechanics. So I snuck it in anyway. But trust me when I say this. If I had been caught doing that, I would have been in trouble. Get caught once, get written up. Get caught again, and it’s a firing offense.
I never read Plato until I was well into adulthood. I bought my set of “Great Books” and started working my way through them during my lunch hours. I didn’t get far, but I got through Plato and a few others; too many other books intruded into my reading list. I’m going back to the basics, now, working my way through the Harvard Classics which you can get for $1.99 from Kindle.
I have often said that the best education in the world was four years in the Navy and a set of Harvard Classics ($300 from ebay)... but then I found you can get the entire set plus twenty volumes more from Kindle for 2 bucks.
I never served, but in my working life I noticed that some of the best trained people I encountered had got their training in the Navy. The military in general, and maybe the Navy in particular, have some of the best schools anywhere.
I would support a more classic based education, but really that hasn’t been around for a long time. Things get worse year by year. Maybe a classics based home schooling would be the best answer.
Going right to the root of Western Civilization.
They mean to erase us.
I agree. The teaching of Virtue is sorely missed.
“It seems to me that most Literature Classes were designed by people who hate their students.
The assignments in those classes are dreadful stories and books that successfully discourage students from reading in the future.”
Like what?
“Heather Has Two Mommies” will be the standard in the future.
I remember being forced to read “A Tale of Two Cities” when in high school. Dreadful assignment!
I was also forced to read some garbage written by Elie Wiesel, who was later revealed to be a pathological liar and narcissist.
Kids should be reading things that are interesting and unique, not things that are dreadful or based on garbage lies.
Fahrenheit 451 come to life....................
Most of it.
I only remember one story in a lit book that I actually enjoyed, The Most Dangerous Game.
The vast majority were painful to read. For instance, what a great story to read for kid - The Red Pony by Steinbeck.
Or what about Jimmy has two daddies?
Actually China got rid of virtually all of their "Chinese" culture. To see Chinese culture today you have to go to Taiwan. Its just what communist totalitarian dictators have to do to make their surfs good and pliable.
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