You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
Maximilianne on
i am disappointed, we literally have a Borges flair in r/neoliberal and yet no one ever mentions the library of babel
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> A study of English literature students at American universities found that they were unable to understand the first paragraph of Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak House — a book that was once regularly read by children.
I’m sorry *Literature students?* People who go to school to study this stuff? How did they get this far?
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You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
i am disappointed, we literally have a Borges flair in r/neoliberal and yet no one ever mentions the library of babel
> A study of English literature students at American universities found that they were unable to understand the first paragraph of Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak House — a book that was once regularly read by children.
I’m sorry *Literature students?* People who go to school to study this stuff? How did they get this far?