The Federalist
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Frida Ghitis: The Atlantic article about elite college students who can't read books points finger at wrong assailant.
She says high school English teachers would love to assign more books and more reading to students.
Ghitis says teens are more likely to read a novel at 13 than they are at 17 years old .
She asks: Imagine a future populated future populated by people who don’t know how to explain the complexities of their feelings or nuances of their thinking.
Learning makes the world deeper and richer by inviting our questions and, hopefully, rewards the quest for wisdom. What we have today is not an enlargement of the self, but a metastasizing diminishment of our children’s capacity to reason, imagine, and converse. It raises a simple but tragic question: Is it too late?.
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