Normal to not absorb. When confronted with something boring, our brains shut down. Trying to force it to process something super boring would be like trying to force yourself to drink something disgusting and toxic, it just ain't gonna happen. Your body will reject it.
I remember we had watch or read that story. All I remember, IF this is the same story, is some abused kid growing up to be rich and having parties at his house, though he didn't even know most of the attendees. I think (scratching head)...
anyways -
If we are flat out not interested in something, the information is just not going to sink in. If we WANT to know and if we can relate somehow, that makes for interesting. Like say how a gear head wants to know how everything on a car works but most people could give two shits. Or how a geek enjoys learning programming but most of us would fall asleep.
WHY schools like to torture students with these "great classics" is still a mystery to me.
I don't understand why schools go crazy about writing reports and essays over literature. I get a quiz where you ask students some questions about the book, since it's a part of being cultured, but the rest is nonsense.
I remember studying an obscure Bulgarian poet in school. His works weren't significant prior to the year 2003, but now somehow he became a crucial part of literature...
He came from a very rich family, studied philosophy, wrote poems, had a wife and 5 children, died at the age of 83 in luxury and everything he wrote was how death is the salvation for humanity... and we should embrace death.
And the only way to achieve it was through hard labour and sorrow...
What an asshole... It's like a millionaire going up to a homeless guy and saying "it's ok to be homeless and broke, death will save you, just go hungry and suffer more"
I absolutely hated writing about that poet most people considered an asshole.
If death was salvation, why didn't that motherfucker hang himself and save future generations from his drudgery?
While I DO understand why language, reading, and grammar classes are needed, I do not know why Literature ones are. Literature is not going to help someone in the real world.
For the reading part, it should be something useful for the real world.
For "it's ok to be homeless and broke, death will save you, just go hungry and suffer more", Yeah if I were rich or not I am not) but I would not tell someone that. I firmly believe that if we laugh at or mock someone else's misfortune, we are just asking to be next.
No matter how hard I try, I can't read this book
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The Great Cuntsby.
Normal to not absorb. When confronted with something boring, our brains shut down. Trying to force it to process something super boring would be like trying to force yourself to drink something disgusting and toxic, it just ain't gonna happen. Your body will reject it.
I remember we had watch or read that story. All I remember, IF this is the same story, is some abused kid growing up to be rich and having parties at his house, though he didn't even know most of the attendees. I think (scratching head)...
anyways -
If we are flat out not interested in something, the information is just not going to sink in. If we WANT to know and if we can relate somehow, that makes for interesting. Like say how a gear head wants to know how everything on a car works but most people could give two shits. Or how a geek enjoys learning programming but most of us would fall asleep.
WHY schools like to torture students with these "great classics" is still a mystery to me.
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I don't understand why schools go crazy about writing reports and essays over literature. I get a quiz where you ask students some questions about the book, since it's a part of being cultured, but the rest is nonsense.
I remember studying an obscure Bulgarian poet in school. His works weren't significant prior to the year 2003, but now somehow he became a crucial part of literature...
He came from a very rich family, studied philosophy, wrote poems, had a wife and 5 children, died at the age of 83 in luxury and everything he wrote was how death is the salvation for humanity... and we should embrace death.
And the only way to achieve it was through hard labour and sorrow...
What an asshole... It's like a millionaire going up to a homeless guy and saying "it's ok to be homeless and broke, death will save you, just go hungry and suffer more"
I absolutely hated writing about that poet most people considered an asshole.
If death was salvation, why didn't that motherfucker hang himself and save future generations from his drudgery?
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While I DO understand why language, reading, and grammar classes are needed, I do not know why Literature ones are. Literature is not going to help someone in the real world.
For the reading part, it should be something useful for the real world.
For "it's ok to be homeless and broke, death will save you, just go hungry and suffer more", Yeah if I were rich or not I am not) but I would not tell someone that. I firmly believe that if we laugh at or mock someone else's misfortune, we are just asking to be next.