When I was a youngin (just to make me sound older) the teacher would tell us to read a book. We all took our turns reading out loud, which everyone hated, and everntually we would finnish the book and everyone would talk about it or do a report about it.
Boring!
Eventually, in high school, we got to pick our own books to do reports on. Well, from the selection that the teacher brought. So instead of broadening our minds by letting us fall in love with reading by picking our own books, we were forced to read one of the books from the teachers moldy old box (Don't think about it that way).
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I fell in love with reading after high school. Mostly because I discovered books that I actually found interesting. And not books we had to read for school. That one about the time traveling cat, or the one about the fairies and those BASTERD Pixies. The grave! Lots of good books and plenty of authors to choose from. I wish I would have fell in love with reading a long time ago.
That's why, if my kids ever come home from school and says "teacher said we have to read this book for school." I'm going to give them a book from my own collection to take the teacher with a note attached saying "I'd like an 8 page essay about this book by the end of the month. Thank you!"
But I'd homeschool my kids so I wouldn't have that problem. I'll try and make them fall in love with reading earlier than I did. But then they wouldn't have the same mind as me. Less imaginative maybe. Would that be such a good thing? In some aspect yes. I would actually hope that my kids end up nothing like me. Which is why adoption is so great. All the care with none of the genes!
To quite Pippy Longstocking
"children need a little order in their lives, especially if they can order it themselves!"
Nameless hipster girl
