An Atlanta article attacks utilitarian arguments for reading. I push back.
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Why Aren’t More Kids Reading?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Adam Kirsch, Ars Poetica, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, Horace, Huckleberry Finn, John Stuart Mill, Judy Blume, Madame Bovary, Mark Twain, Martha Nussbaum, Perks of Being a Wall Flower, Samuel Johnson, Sorrows of Young Werther, Tom Jones Comments closed
Is Rousseau Ruining Today’s Youth?
A Wall Street Journal columnist argues that Rousseau is responsible for today’s lost youth. That and not reading classic lit.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Classicism, Emile, Gustave Flaubert, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Madame Bovary, Narnia, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Romanticism, Secret Garden, Triumph of Life, young adult literature Comments closed