When I was at school ( a long time ago), some of the books I had to read were Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Animal Farm, 1984 (George Orwell), Sons & Lovers (D H Lawrence), The Hobbit (Tolkien), and many others. These books inspired me to continue reading - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Jane Austen, The Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Elliott, Balzac, Mervin Peake, Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Robert Graves, Evelyn Waugh, Grahame Greene and so on and so on.
My 15 year old son came home last week with an essay to do for English Lit on the film 6th Sense. I've never seen it. I've heard it's a good film. But......is it really literature??? Are we doing our children a great disservice by not introducing them to great literature?
Or am I just old fashioned and living in the past.
2006-07-05
07:30:30
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Guru Nana
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Primary & Secondary Education