In English speaking countries English literature classes in which students read fiction should be abolished as a graduation requirement for High School and Universities for all Majors and the English Literature Major should be abolished from any University that receives taxpayer funding
@HatkeshiatorTND
Why would a doctor, chemist or engineer need to know what is in a fiction book to graduate from a university in order to be certified that they can safely treat patients or modify product design specifications or supervise work with chemicals
How would reading Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings or Narnia make someone better at those professions
How would it help them make new science discoveries better than reading more science textbooks or practicing more math instead
would you trust a heart surgeon who thinks, of the greatest poets and authors of his country's history, of the generals and philosophers who exalted his nation's man, that they were nothing more than oafs about whom he resents to learn?
i wouldn't.
@HatkeshiatorTND @shortstories
Reading does not make you smarter.
Only more dimensioned.
Dumb people cannot attack a book with thr rigor necessary to glean salient insights.
