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Was talking with prof about this essay and he pointed out to me that literacy loss has created whole generations of people unable to access their culture or past. College diploma holders who are incapable of reading the Bible https://open.substack.com/pub/kittenbeloved/p/college-english-majors-cant-read?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Here these college students, English MAJORS, some of them, were asked to read Dickens and describe what was happening in modern language. They were so bad at it the facilitator was sniggering while administering the test
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I've been thinking a lot about this lately. Sparked by the near-constant parading of the statistic that most people read at a 6th grade level, and it's function of implying we should all dumb down our writing. I got stuck in a sort of boot-loop on one thought: > how could a 6th grader improve their literacy if they were only ever to be confronted with text at their current comprehension level? In other words, should we not strive to push people to be better? Should we not try to make things that are challenging, complex, and engaging, rather than, in every sense of the word, basic?
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Imo it changes from the top down — people need to be taught these skills, access to challenging materials is not enough The students in this test had every resource available to understand and still couldn’t Need to make it “worth” doing because success is tied to it / elites demonstrate this
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