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Elite colleges shocked to discover students ‘don’t know how’ to read books: ‘My jaw dropped’
NY Post ^
| October 4, 2024
| By Lindsay Kornick
Posted on 10/04/2024 9:44:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: The Louiswu
"I’m taking a playwriting class at the U of I this semester"
University of Idaho where one of my girls is?
I didn't think so, looked at your profile and also the U of I (daho) doesn't have too much of that woke stuff).
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posted on
10/04/2024 1:23:59 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
To: Dalberg-Acton
I find it annoying that everything is explained on YouTube videos now. It's hard to find text to read instructions anymore (which I prefer).
Even more annoying, are the red-dots that I can't understand a word of what they are saying.
Then, there are the (mostly Chinese) that use a synthetic voice to speak the instructions, usually of a synthetic female 🤪🤔
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posted on
10/04/2024 1:38:19 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
(I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
To: Night Hides Not
If you can get through the first 100 pages of Atlas Shrugged, you’re halfway there. "Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of s**t, I am never reading again."
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posted on
10/04/2024 1:38:50 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
" ... And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"
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posted on
10/04/2024 1:41:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: x
Our children's school has a standing order with me for any of these books I can find in readable condition for the school library.
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posted on
10/04/2024 1:55:08 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: dfwgator
To each his own, gator. The author of that quote obviously skipped over “The Aristocracy of Pull, Miracle Metal, and
The Concerto of Deliverance. Three of the most weighty chapters in a powerful novel.
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posted on
10/04/2024 2:42:20 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: gitmo
I don't know if they were adult books, but my son loved to read. The school had a Q&A sheet for many of the books for the kids to prove that they had read them and understood the themes.
They only had a limited number of books that they had the Q&A sheets for. We ended up buying them for the more advanced books our son wanted to read.
I was speaking with an acquaintance that teaches at the middle school (7th graders?). He is ready to retire. Between trying to teach kids that don't even know english to the terrible behavior of the students it is really difficult to teach the normal kids.
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posted on
10/04/2024 2:54:49 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
To: Dalberg-Acton
Yes, they have the attention span of a gnat.
I see them at my workplace. They do their job for maybe 5-10 minutes, then have to get to their $8 coffee and surf on their phone.
Rinse, repeat all day long. Absolutely no focus, discipline or work ethic.
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Try Alibris.com. I’ve found quite a few books there that are out of print or otherwise hard to find.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
a first-year student told him that she had never been required to read a full book at her public high school. I've always read books (in full) because I WANTED to read them, not because of some requirement. So this person never felt the interest to actually read any book at all. OK.
That said, some books on my English Lit reading list I found tedious and not to my interest by topic and/or style. THOSE books I did not read to the end. I had better books to read.
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posted on
10/04/2024 3:56:54 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: Dalberg-Acton
I think the Internet is causing people to have short attention spans. TL;DR
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posted on
10/04/2024 4:05:35 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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