tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post8236838550994125638..comments2024-03-14T18:09:09.667-05:00Comments on Do Some Damage: The End of Fiction?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-23744668085316012832012-11-03T00:02:23.798-05:002012-11-03T00:02:23.798-05:00If the student hasn't studied some art and mus...If the student hasn't studied some art and music he/she has not recieved an education.<br />If majoring in social studies, art and music but recieving no information on science or physical fitness, education has not taken place.<br />If a student does not learn to read and enjoy fiction he will not have developed the ability to think for himself.<br />This is a marvelous goal for most of those who call themselves our "leaders" for they can then create a mob who will follow them and do exactly as they are told.<br />Not a good state of affairs for those who actually think.D.M. McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008773391981989236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-59736845527183891182012-10-31T07:16:03.562-05:002012-10-31T07:16:03.562-05:00They teach checkbook math in schools so why not te...They teach checkbook math in schools so why not teach how to read things that arent 500 pages about some cripple chasing a fish?Nickhttp://google.com/profile/user/NickATnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-66880637777543205622012-10-30T15:44:06.978-05:002012-10-30T15:44:06.978-05:00The approximate point at which things started to g...The approximate point at which things started to go to hell is when teachers became superseded by educators. The difference between the verbs these nouns describe is vast. A teacher can teach you, which allows you to educate yourself.<br /><br />Assuming, of course, some educator hasn't mucked things up so the teacher isn't allowed to tech you to think.Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-76452815382881770112012-10-30T12:51:09.771-05:002012-10-30T12:51:09.771-05:00I am usually a big proponent of public schools- bu...I am usually a big proponent of public schools- but now I realize it is the teachers I like. The administration is often utterly idiotic, if only because they must serve politicians, and therefore some guy's brother in law with a bidness, and also parents and school boards, who have their own agendas.<br />They've been teaching kids to take tests for how long now? It doesn't work. Teach them to enjoy learning, to realize the more you know the better you are able to survive a changing and chaotic world. Reading good stories is a big part of that. Thomas Pluckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17008022962076648740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-79074205714571228612012-10-30T09:50:32.363-05:002012-10-30T09:50:32.363-05:00Teachers are killing fiction?
That's a new one...Teachers are killing fiction?<br />That's a new one.Steve Weddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03876211586767139613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-52249345309548668642012-10-30T09:33:38.169-05:002012-10-30T09:33:38.169-05:00This might be worse news than Hurricane Sandy. I h...This might be worse news than Hurricane Sandy. I had no idea this was going on. Anyone who can read serious fiction can certainly read a report. They have is ass-backwards. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-71707740626004603762012-10-30T07:56:35.293-05:002012-10-30T07:56:35.293-05:00It's part of a disturbing trend to make all ed...It's part of a disturbing trend to make all education vo-tech. (That's what we called it when i was in school. I don't know what term they use now.) <br /><br />I dislike the trend, but i'm not too worried yet. I read almost nothing but non-fiction when i got out of school, for over ten years. Much of the fiction I had shoved down my throat taught me reading fiction was a chore and not something to be enjoyed. Around the time I finished graduate school I got turned on to Vonnegut an Mark Twain and have read primarily fiction ever since. <br /><br />I'm all for reading the classics, but public schools might also want to remember their primary job is to prepare young minds for life on their own. The current trend leans toward creating work drones, but should be teaching them how to think for themselves and explore new things, even if only intellectually. <br /><br />I wonder if having non-fiction forced on them the way I had "great" fiction forced on me will create an opposite effect from mine, where students in a few years will have had enough and turn to fiction for their recreational reading. We'll see.Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.com