Thanks for uploading this. I work as an elementary montessori guide and this inspires me to think more deeply about the children’s connections to difficult works over their years in the classroom.
Its seemingly an unlikely event....but if anyone likes this video and wants more along the same line, check out the work of John Taylor Gatto, who wrote and spoke on the same exact topic, with more attention to the structure of schools and how they produce confused, incurious, illiterates.
Fascinating video. Silverblatt echoes the thesis and concerns of John Taylor gatto when Gatto tells us that 19thC literacy in the US was far more sophisticated and tough-minded, able to deal with difficult and complicated ideas that today's readers don't even attempt to grapple with. Must point out that in your video explanation you have used ''effect'' when you should have used ''affect''. The irony!
Thanks for uploading this. I work as an elementary montessori guide and this inspires me to think more deeply about the children’s connections to difficult works over their years in the classroom.
I found Michael through Bob Odenkirk's hilarious character based on him (Thor Silverblatt) and man I love listening to him way more than I expected.
Dan Castellaneta’s public radio host on Parks and Recreation is also a homage to Silverblatt, and that’s how I ended up here.
Its seemingly an unlikely event....but if anyone likes this video and wants more along the same line, check out the work of John Taylor Gatto, who wrote and spoke on the same exact topic, with more attention to the structure of schools and how they produce confused, incurious, illiterates.
Fascinating video. Silverblatt echoes the thesis and concerns of John Taylor gatto when Gatto tells us that 19thC literacy in the US was far more sophisticated and tough-minded, able to deal with difficult and complicated ideas that today's readers don't even attempt to grapple with.
Must point out that in your video explanation you have used ''effect'' when you should have used ''affect''. The irony!
They remove criticism, it's all fake