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Good fiction is experiential and usually subversive. What happens there is between you and the book; your experience as a reader can't be dictated to you retrospectively by higher powers. Too much force-feeding & what you get is skilled non-readershttps://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1062287178976227329 …
Really good non-fiction is experiential, too. Compare anything written by e.g. @DavidDeutschOxf or @tylercowen or @danariely to a typical textbook and you'll notice immediately the difference between a simulated conversation and... whatever foul thing the textbook is
Helping students become skilled, enthusiastic readers is at the very top of my teacherly goals
And this a good example of how hard teaching is, since the reader’s experience—idiosyncratically personal, open to spontaneous discovery, and potentially discomfiting—can’t be compelled by an intrusive pedagogic method
Hard, if you make it hard — and maybe there are some small gains there, with a skilled, passionate, and empathetic teacher several standard deviations from the norm. Easy, if you make it easy — let kids keep trying until they find something they enjoy reading, then leave them be
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