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Is it really important for young people to read the so-called "classics" or is there enough good modern literature to cover the same concepts?
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I think it is important. But with the way schools work nowadays with trying to keep up with the times, there getting away from it, which is a shame if you ask me.
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Everybody should read "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "White Fang".
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Edited by
breathless1
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Mon 11/17/08 04:43 PM
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Is it really important for young people to read the so-called "classics" or is there enough good modern literature to cover the same concepts? I think there should be a decent blend of both. 
Every child, in their early years, should be challenged to read: Diary of Ann Frank To Kill a Mockingbird The Scarlet Letter Uncle Tom's Cabin ...to name a few.
It's like I tell my own kids, to know the present and and hold hope for the future, you must first understand the past. |
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It's like I tell my own kids, to know the present and future, you must understand the past.
That works for music, too....but they don't wanna go there. |
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Is it really important for young people to read the so-called "classics" or is there enough good modern literature to cover the same concepts? I READ EVERYTHING... oldies new ones & everything in between. Its a great way to become a well rounded person.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to go back read some of those classics, I admit freely I was a junkie just for modern fiction and have to say I didn't realize what I was missing out on.
Some of those classics have no modern comparison for the level of topics and skill of the writer it would be shameful for the schools to stop teaching it We all learn from the past |
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Gotta love my daughter. She found a list of the top 50 books that have been banned at one time or another from public and school libraries..... and started working her way down the list.
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The Leather Stocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper.
Anything by Hermann Hesse. Aside from the stories themselves they provide insight into what the world was about for the authors in their time. |
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Gotta love my daughter. She found a list of the top 50 books that have been banned at one time or another from public and school libraries..... and started working her way down the list. Sounds like a smart girl! 
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I homeschooled my boys for a couple of years and we studied history through literature. It was a lot of fun and much more interesting that just using a text book.
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