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> If the kids at a specific school don't seem to respond well to a text, PULL IT. That seems like a very weird understanding of education to me. The whole poin
by Nitramp 16y ago
> If the kids at a specific school don't seem to respond well to a text, PULL IT.
That seems like a very weird understanding of education to me. The whole point of the exercise is getting children to read something they might otherwise miss. If students oppose a book's content - very good, you have a debate running, and you can clearly learn from that (e.g., Huxley's use of the term savages does not dehumanize them, quite the contrary).
Education is not about taking the easy path to something, it's about taking the hard path, and learning on the way.
- rbanffy 16y ago> Huxley's use of the term savages does not dehumanize them, quite the contrary I would go as far and explain those parents who are so afraid of it, that it's just a word that means something for the "civilized" characters of the book that's very different than it means to us or them. And that "civilized" is also just a word. Meaning is in the brain of the reader. A book is only dehydrated knowledge. You have to add a brain to it.