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> don't like reading books and tend to skip even very important titles That's because the list of mandatory [1] reading in Poland is 90% haphazardly thrown to
by q3k 6y ago
> don't like reading books and tend to skip even very important titles
That's because the list of mandatory [1] reading in Poland is 90% haphazardly thrown together nationalistic martyrdom bullshit with terrible state-mandated interpretation.
I used to _hate_ literary analysis, partly because of the works we were studying and how we were forced to interpret them. Then, years after leaving school I've discovered that this can actually be interesting and intellectually stimulating, especially if you care for the work, and doubly so if you're actually explained the point of this sort of analysis in the first place. Every single peer of around my age that has gone through the same system has had the exact same experience, regardless of school or district.
[1] - as I've experienced it 10 years ago
- Tade0 6y agoThe only books I've read in high school were from the "advanced" section - or in other words - non-mandatory. Unrelated: I still have your Arduino knock-off which you lent me back during our days in a company related to a certain fruit.
- grugagag 6y agoYes, same story in every country on the eastern European block which either creates nationalists for the ones who are okay with the material or makes students abhor literature analysis and even literature in general.
- selimthegrim 6y agoDanilo Kiš basically ran headlong into this.
- Lev1a 6y agoIn your neighbouring country Germany some of the entries for our 8th grade group reading and analysis project were: - book about an anorexic girl (which IIRC was assigned by the lottery to the recovering anorexic girl in my class) - book about a teenage boy falling in love with a drug-addicted girl and falling down into that swamp as well (names "Einbahnstraße" => "one-way street") - some other books about adipositas and fat kids/teenagers hating themselves for being fat (IIRC some even contemplating suicide) + a bunch of other books in the same vein Needless to say that was a very fun few weeks while presenting the books and their analyses...
- q3k 6y agoOur literature teacher did have some spare student-time to throw in some of her selected books (in 10th grade I think?), and one of her choice was ”Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo”. It was certainly a formative experience, so I kinda do envy the program you went through :).
- Lev1a 6y agoI vaguely remember we had to read that as well but I don't exactly remember when that was during school.
- jwr 6y ago> the list of mandatory [1] reading in Poland is 90% haphazardly thrown together nationalistic martyrdom bullshit with terrible state-mandated interpretation I've experienced this about 30 years ago and I'm experiencing it now with my child, and I couldn't agree more with that description. In fact, it is the best summary of our reading curriculum that I've ever seen. Saving for later.
- p_l 6y agoFortunately not every teacher is like that, but having been exposed to a famously great literature teacher, finding out that a lot of "standard analysis" is not even state-mandated but essentially a bunch of shitty memes driven by people who need to cast shit in bronze... that was bit soul crushing.