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I mean, reading / playing witcher you'd get better morale / class diversification understanding than reading Bible or Illiad, Shakespeare is definetely not for

by Imlus 6y ago

I mean, reading / playing witcher you'd get better morale / class diversification understanding than reading Bible or Illiad, Shakespeare is definetely not for school readings, if you're not interested in the actual literature that book has no value in your life. I, personally, love reading books. But forcing that material to 12-18 and saying read these classic ones just pushes back youth from reading at all. You either move forward and adapt with the current generation or you try to force old generation habits and slowly curse on the result.

billfruit 6y ago
Poland has a good literary heritage, which was partly responsible for the coalescing of Poland as a nation. So I suppose many of books and authors from that tradition could be essential reading for Polish young people.. I am not from Poland myself. Perhaps Henrik Sienkiewicz is one of those authors.. Perhaps they should prescribe the Witcher novels too.
- ceceron 6y ago
  I've read Witcher in my school (but only one short novel to be fair, rest I've finished just because I liked it) ;)
throwaway894345 6y ago
> morale / class diversification What does this mean, exactly? And why is it valuable? > You either move forward and adapt with the current generation or you try to force old generation habits and slowly curse on the result The classics are thousands of years old and have served as popular educational material for centuries. Why is Gen-Z categorically different from all of the generations that have come before such that we should change? I'm not sure that Gen-Z is even different with respect to their ability to understand or appreciate the classics, and to the extent that they are, I suspect that's because (at least in the US) we've changed how we teach, de-emphasizing things like civics (probably in favor of an increasingly identitarian curriculum). Note that this isn't a defense of the classics--for example, this wouldn't rebut the idea that classics are overrated--it only challenges the specific idea that something abruptly changed such that the classics are obsolete.
- greggman3 6y ago
  I don't know which is Gen-Z but see my friends 5-6 year olds glued to their phones or tablets. They have the entire world of videos to watch at their finger tips. I'd argue they are in an entirely different situation than previous generations. Even kids growing up in the 90s probably didn't have their own computer and the internet wasn't full of video entertainment and free games and kids growing up 2000-2010 didn't have phones and tablets. 80s kids had cable and VHS. 50-60-70s kids had TV 20-30-40s kids had radio So personally I do think it's a big difference. I'm awestruck by what kids have access to today vs what I had access to growing up in the 70s, early 80s. Kids today can learn about any topic and anytime, anywhere. When I grew up if it wasn't in my family bookshelf or the library I didn't have access to it. Kids today can also watch almost all movies of the last 100 yrs on demand. When I grew up video wasn't a thing and cable didn't happen until I got to high school so all I had was the few channels on the TV and whatever they happened to be showing. That difference has to mean something. Whether it means "classics" are still relevant or not I have no idea but reading of those arguably came from a time when content was scarce. It's not anymore.

by Imlus 6y ago

billfruit 6y ago

Poland has a good literary heritage, which was partly responsible for the coalescing of Poland as a nation. So I suppose many of books and authors from that tradition could be essential reading for Polish young people.. I am not from Poland myself. Perhaps Henrik Sienkiewicz is one of those authors.. Perhaps they should prescribe the Witcher novels too.

ceceron 6y ago
I've read Witcher in my school (but only one short novel to be fair, rest I've finished just because I liked it) ;)

throwaway894345 6y ago

> morale / class diversification What does this mean, exactly? And why is it valuable? > You either move forward and adapt with the current generation or you try to force old generation habits and slowly curse on the result The classics are thousands of years old and have served as popular educational material for centuries. Why is Gen-Z categorically different from all of the generations that have come before such that we should change? I'm not sure that Gen-Z is even different with respect to their ability to understand or appreciate the classics, and to the extent that they are, I suspect that's because (at least in the US) we've changed how we teach, de-emphasizing things like civics (probably in favor of an increasingly identitarian curriculum). Note that this isn't a defense of the classics--for example, this wouldn't rebut the idea that classics are overrated--it only challenges the specific idea that something abruptly changed such that the classics are obsolete.

greggman3 6y ago
I don't know which is Gen-Z but see my friends 5-6 year olds glued to their phones or tablets. They have the entire world of videos to watch at their finger tips. I'd argue they are in an entirely different situation than previous generations. Even kids growing up in the 90s probably didn't have their own computer and the internet wasn't full of video entertainment and free games and kids growing up 2000-2010 didn't have phones and tablets. 80s kids had cable and VHS. 50-60-70s kids had TV 20-30-40s kids had radio So personally I do think it's a big difference. I'm awestruck by what kids have access to today vs what I had access to growing up in the 70s, early 80s. Kids today can learn about any topic and anytime, anywhere. When I grew up if it wasn't in my family bookshelf or the library I didn't have access to it. Kids today can also watch almost all movies of the last 100 yrs on demand. When I grew up video wasn't a thing and cable didn't happen until I got to high school so all I had was the few channels on the TV and whatever they happened to be showing. That difference has to mean something. Whether it means "classics" are still relevant or not I have no idea but reading of those arguably came from a time when content was scarce. It's not anymore.