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 …
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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Well in my case it’s college kids, and while my approach is to be as unobtrusive as I can, I can’t just let them be. Also, I teach the kind of stuff that’s just really hard to read w/o guidance. But for a younger set, I see what you mean
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College classes are a totally different ballgame: they're not compulsory. I can't speak to your teaching ability, but if your students don't find your materials or methods useful, they presumably don't have to be there
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