1. America the Illiterate →

    PWK, whom I hear goes ‘all the way,’ pulled Chris Hedges’ quote:

    A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school.

    Troubling; worse than I imagined. Still, cherry-picking that quote, from among many striking lines, misrepresents the essay’s heft. Hedges probes a broader ‘illiteracy,’ of which book-reading is one significant piece. 

    He’s on about functioning adulthood, social values and disenfranchisement by narrative/cliche politics; about those who interpret Yes, we can as a permission slip rather than a call to service; about the “[h]uge segments of our population…completely unmoored from reality.” Have at it.

    [Roll bread-crumb credits: peterwknox:robot-heart:mufti:emilyposts.]

    3 years ago  /  50 notes  /  Source: emilyposts

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    4. chelynne reblogged this from mindbabies and added:
      BECAUSE SCHOOL TURNS US OFF TO BOOKS!!! EEEEEHHH No, I need to start reading more fo shooo
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      For me this has been the complete opposite. Since graduating, I’ve read more books now than I ever read when I was...
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      This is distressing.
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      I blame the school system. They insist on making us read the ‘classic’ books from a very young age. Books like Cry, The...
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    17. mittenstategirl reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      citizen. It shows...profound lack of intelletual curiosity among adults
    18. mindbabies reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      BUT WHYYYY??!?!?! T_T
    19. boutofcontext reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      PWK, whom I hear goes ‘all...way,’ pulled Chris Hedges’ quote:
    20. erickd reblogged this from brilliantlydisruptive and added:
      This is horribly unbelievable.
    21. jaycruz reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      All I kept thinking while I read this
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    23. betterthancupcakes reblogged this from brilliantlydisruptive and added:
      Um. That’s seriously one of the saddest things I’ve heard!
    24. brilliantlydisruptive reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      robot-heart:mufti:
    25. breannajai reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      me. I cannnot imagine not reading. I wish...there were more hours
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      mufti:emilyposts: This is the scariest thing to...lover, a book writer (in dreams),
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    32. yellowhat reblogged this from robot-heart and added:
      Yeah, I don’t read so many books as I used to. I’m getting more into writing mine, though.
    33. sds reblogged this from robot-heart and added:
      Ugh. Not reading is completely unimaginable to me. I truly cannot remember the last time I wasn’t reading...
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