Whoa! That’s ME! That’s me trapped in a cartoon male body! I hated reading something when I had to do a book report on it or if I was going to be tested on it or something. But when I chose to read something on my own, I loved it. And I did read some things that I tried to read for book reports when I was an adult. Such as Little Women and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I need to find Blue Willow and Alexandra.
Exactly. Nothing kills a love of reading- or anything for that matter- as quickly as making it mandatory.
My school had a reading “club” and we were required to read & write a report on at least 10 books a quarter in the report notebook. The teacher kept a scoreboard on prominent display. Of course, this being 7th grade, the girls were the overachievers with scores of books read. We boys struggled to get the minimum done. Public shaming was involved… a favourite tool of some of our teachers.
It wasn’t the reading, it was the book reports that were the hard part for me. i always hated hated hated writing papers.
I love reading, but I hated it when we got assigned books to read. Usually because I had to stop reading the book I was already reading so that I could read the one assigned. Blah.
I never met a text book that could hold my attention, and I passed up stuff like Nancy Drew. and somebody Student Nurse, that girls were supposed to like.Yet somehow managed to read hundreds of books.The same time I was supposed to be reading the afore mentioned stuff, I dove deeply into Dickens.
As a senior (76) I love the stuff I never cared for as a student. Especially mythology dealing with origins and the emergence of the human condition. Ancient storytelling and rituals of transformation were the psychotherapies of its day.
I got most of my scholastic education outside of school. Once my mother discovered I was a voracious reader, she made one firm rule: for every five works of fiction, I had to read three non-fiction.
wiatr almost 4 years ago
This is strangely familiar to me. Assigning a reading usually made it into something I’d put off to the last minute.
Auntie Socialist almost 4 years ago
Work consists of what a body is obliged to do wheras play consists of what a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
bookworm0812 almost 4 years ago
Whoa! That’s ME! That’s me trapped in a cartoon male body! I hated reading something when I had to do a book report on it or if I was going to be tested on it or something. But when I chose to read something on my own, I loved it. And I did read some things that I tried to read for book reports when I was an adult. Such as Little Women and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I need to find Blue Willow and Alexandra.
Ryker the reader almost 4 years ago
us humans dread being forced to do stuff, we love to have freedom and do it by our own will.
mountainclimber almost 4 years ago
Shakespeare is so over rated. Hamlet, MacBeth, King Lear, same plot over and over — Everybody dies.
gigagrouch almost 4 years ago
Exactly. Nothing kills a love of reading- or anything for that matter- as quickly as making it mandatory.
My school had a reading “club” and we were required to read & write a report on at least 10 books a quarter in the report notebook. The teacher kept a scoreboard on prominent display. Of course, this being 7th grade, the girls were the overachievers with scores of books read. We boys struggled to get the minimum done. Public shaming was involved… a favourite tool of some of our teachers.
It wasn’t the reading, it was the book reports that were the hard part for me. i always hated hated hated writing papers.
saxie5 almost 4 years ago
I love reading, but I hated it when we got assigned books to read. Usually because I had to stop reading the book I was already reading so that I could read the one assigned. Blah.
christelisbetty almost 4 years ago
I never met a text book that could hold my attention, and I passed up stuff like Nancy Drew. and somebody Student Nurse, that girls were supposed to like.Yet somehow managed to read hundreds of books.The same time I was supposed to be reading the afore mentioned stuff, I dove deeply into Dickens.
Doctor Toon almost 4 years ago
I thought I loved reading as a kid
I thought I loved reading as a young adult, but I never had enough time
Love reading more than ever in my 50s, I make time
spaced man spliff almost 4 years ago
As a senior (76) I love the stuff I never cared for as a student. Especially mythology dealing with origins and the emergence of the human condition. Ancient storytelling and rituals of transformation were the psychotherapies of its day.
MuddyUSA Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Sure, spoil the endings!
mistercatworks almost 4 years ago
I got most of my scholastic education outside of school. Once my mother discovered I was a voracious reader, she made one firm rule: for every five works of fiction, I had to read three non-fiction.