The quote in this entry are from Chapter 2 of The Message In the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other by Walker Percy. Chapter 2 is entitled “The Loss of the Creature.” I found this excerpt through a friend of mine.
“A [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Books and Fish
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Books aren’t for your entertainment.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The quotes in this entry are from an article titled “Books? What’re Those?” from the blog of xTiffanyx located at the Progressive U website on 2/28/07.
“Do we read to learn anymore? Or do we read to entertain ourselves?” These questions make me think about my own reasons for reading. Do I read merely [...]
How do we teach?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Is it really all that beneficial to put so much emphasis on the classics? I like them, I’ve learned from them, but I’ve learned more from reading The Giver than I did from Crime and Punishment. I learned a great deal more from Ender’s Game than I did from fighting through Great Expectations. [...]
