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I’m sorry, but is your implication that the point of books is to make information hard to digest for the sake of some vain appearance of intelligence? Not effi

• mcpackieh 3y ago
  It's not about the informational "nonfiction" content of the books, we're talking about teaching kids how to use language. Expanding people's vocabulary and awareness of all the language has to offer so that more cultural and informative works might become accessible to them. If you're not challenging yourself, you're not learning.
  • RC_ITR 3y ago
    Sure, but keep in mind, we just invented the machine that takes hard-to-digest content and transforms it into something easy to understand. It's challenging to read the original classics in Greek (and for a while, doing so was considered the epitome of linguistic education), but we have all agreed that it's not worth it given the realities of the modern world. Take agape for example. Understanding the various ways in which that was used to express 'love' is a masterclass in the history of human emotional development, but I can also read Shakespeare (which is at least in English, sort of), or watch Her (which is a beautiful and compelling film) and arguable have a better understanding of how love is expressed in modernity.