The quotes in this entry are from an article titled “Classic treasures sometimes passed over for popular works,” by Ed Gebert, 1/22/07. This article was found on my Google news feed.
A lot of readers today aren’t really interested in the classics. They see them as works that you’re forced to read in [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Nobody Really Likes the Classics?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »
“What feeds?” you ask.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For this blog I will be using the following feeds.
BBC News – Education
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/education/rss.xml
New York Times – Education
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/education/rss.xml
Google News search for education and literature and classic
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=education+and+literature+and+classic&ie=UTF-8&output=rss
and also The Daily Grind, a teaching blog with an entry devoted to teaching the classics.
http://ahighcall.blogspot.com/atom.xml
I find the Google News search to be the most useful so far.
The Classics + a bit of fiction in general.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Most of us have experienced the classics in high school. A lot can be learned from them and a lot is taught from them. I enjoy reading the classics, besides being educational they are also quite entertaining. I used to always shy away from them, thinking they were all boring, but when I was forced [...]
