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The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University's required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they're assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames's students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.

This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.

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Articles like this make me feel pretty swell about myself.

Im looser. Massive looser.

But at least i can read a book. Not just that. Me not native english reader. When i turned 18. I started to read books in english too. Beocuse you couldn't get everything on my native tounge.

My first english language book was game of thrones. It was little hard and i had to look up words in dictionary. But after few books it was easy as farting.

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Me not native english reader.

:marseyretard#:

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looser

easy as farting

WPD is not sending its best.

@BipoccutetwinkZ-slur, you a WPD-tier r-slur or what?

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Me not friend of poopfish

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It's all gonna be ok :@bipoccutetwinkz-slur#pat:

Also it's 'loser' btw. Lose is to cease posession of something. Loose is the codition of yo mama's pussay once I'm done with her :marseyscoot:

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Its what ever me write. Its your job to figure out my intent

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I can respect that

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>respecting another man

U homo much

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imagine thinking :marseywrongthonk: Game of Thrones is literature :marseyelli: that is bragworthy to say you read it cover to cover.

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Literature doesn't have to be hard to parse to be good, and anyone who thinks so is a massive twink. You're not going to need a dictonary to get through Steinbeck or Hemingway. Hemingway won't even take you long to read.

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but GoT is genre fiction, not literature

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Yeah, but literature isn't necesserily harder or more bragworthy to read is the point. Saying "I read GoT from cover to cover" says about as much about your literacy as anything does.

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Aperently its something these educated folx in burgerland cant do

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Cool, now tell us how much you earn

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About 3,50

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https://media.tenor.com/TP_Dno9gOZEAAAAx/loch-ness.webp

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