Tim Burke’s Easily Distracted notes that many of his students at Swarthmore have lost the pleasure they once got from reading as children. The industrial-humanities machine has ground it out of them. But Oprah isn’t the answer: “Bringing the pleasures of reading into a college environment has got to mean more than just making classrooms more like a book-of-the-month club.”
May 11, 2007
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