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Originally Posted by MandoMan
I taught College English for about forty years. In most cases, the students who started class reading well were the ones whose parents helped them develop a habit of reading. Every time I surveyed the students, I discovered that about 10% of my college freshmen had never read an entire book outside of class assignments. Those were the students most likely to drop out. But I discovered that if I assigned exciting books, I could get them hooked on reading. So I gave up teaching Medieval Literature and started teaching Detective Fiction and The Thriller and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and things like that to freshmen who needed a literature credit. It worked. But how much better for them if their parents had guided them.
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Man, I wish I'd had you as a teacher in HS and College. Most of the "classics" were so tedious and boring. I had an English teacher in 9th grade that had the class read
Lord of the Rings and that was the best English class ever.