Comment on More than half of UK children do not read in their spare time, survey reveals

jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• StudioLE@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The obsession with Shakespeare puts a lot of students off literature

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  • riceandbeans161@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    when shakespeare isn’t even fucking literature

    dude was a PLAYWRIGHT

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    • LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You see the same thing today with popular modern authors.

      In 100+ year time the niche writers who spends years reworking their prose are still going to be niche, while the ultra popular authors who had a cultural impact and dozens of published books will be studied even if at the time they wrote they were trashed as being “not real literature” or “pop fantasy”.

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      • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You talking about “Day of Ascension” by Adrian Tchaikovsky? That’s more than everything Tchaikovsky writes is fun! 😉

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  • tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shakespeare is the ONLY author that has to be taught in schools by government directive. Everything else is at the discretion of exm boards and teachers.

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  • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No idea why they don’t put that in drama class. You know so you can actually learn and perform the plays he wrote.

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• riceandbeans161@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  exactly. Reading is a cheap and fun hobby. But you gotta find enjoyable books!

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Schools approach literature in such a stuffy and formal manner too, they would probably make even the most interesting books a chore.

    We need to foster a better attitude towards reading, and that starts with letting kids enjoy the books they are reading.

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    • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly. They just need to be reading, it.barely matters what.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly. Show them examples of lots of types of books. Include some types of SciFi and fantasy because that’s what a lot of enjoying reading. They always seem looked down on, but they shouldn’t be.

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• Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can't think of many books my school had us read that I enjoyed even a little. I think it was grade school where we were reading The Great Gatsby and such. Compared to all of the books I read b/t classes on my known, they just weren't relevant or interesting.

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