Now that it is officially over, what's your plan for surviving the post-literate world?
Link to article: https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/reaching-a-crisis-point-uc-berkeley-humanities-professors-lower-expectations-for-assigned-readings/article_a1e6e366-9c0b-48a2-b662-5191a7120bf4.html
>>25336844Mass literacy was a mistake
Asking students to read a 700 page novel for your class over the span of 3 days for two days of discussion is a ridiculous expectation.
>>25336844it's not "officially" over. they still consider themselves literate.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pov0MKuyJfg&ra=m
>>25337573that's what elite colleges were supposed to ask u to do because they are feeders for elite law schools where people will be reading 100s of pages a day in their job
>>25337587I'm talking about a literature class you retarded pedant.
>>25336844Playing Gacha Games
>>25336844A little over a century ago you had to be fluent in Latin just to gain admission to college.
>>25337590yeah literature and history majors then go to law school duh damn dude
>>25337596>lit students go to law schoolNo they don't. They become babysitters for the homeless or baristas.
>I recently graduated from a highschool at which I was far and away the best read person in the entire school, including the English teachers>Out of the student body of 600 I knew of only one other student who even read true lit, and sparingly at that>Everything we were assigned we had to read in class, and half the people slept through it anyways>I was one of a grand total of maybe five or so people who abstained from using AI in some way to write essays >The highschool I go to has been consistently ranked one of the Top 10 schools in the nation over its duration, sometimes even Top 5Get a bunker and start prepping, I guess. Human society literally can't sustain itself like this
>>25336844generations of mathematicians have been supported by the university laundering their prestige to epstein
>>25337130Then stop reading and writing dumbfuck
>>25336844Use my superior intelligence to brainwash a harem of illiterate femboys of course.
>>25336844Trust fund + nepotism + paying for reviewsFollowing in the footsteps of the greats
>>25337573the article said one professor had 3 books assigned as reading for his entire courseanother said he would previously assign 100 pages of reading a week and expect 75 pages to actually be read
Working on including simple pictures with my short stories.More to aid in standing out and advertising, but also to trick the semi-literates.Only problem is my drawing ability is far below my already low level of writing.
>>25337573I don't know of any class that ask that. Hyperbole is for histrionic women.
>>25337573>Reading novels for college classesYou know you can be a barrista without going into debt, right?>>25337631Where do I unsubscribe from your blog, junior?
>>25336844>>25336850archive link: https://archive.is/9Wp0D>English professor Grace Lavery, said while she noticed some students struggling with denser Charles Dickens novels, these issues weren’t new or necessarily problematic. >“The reason is that the Dickens novels I teach are long and difficult,” Lavery said. “I imagine that if I had been teaching these novels in the same way back in the 1950s, I would have had exactly the same problems.”haha
>Stop using testing like the SAT to judge students>University fills up with dumbasses This was the most predictable thing ever. American education desperately needs rigor, the SAT is comically easy and that was still too much difficulty for the activists. Meanwhile China has the Gaokao. No wonder they are lapping us
>>25338128>Dickens >Long and difficult They were pop lit printed in serials for the masses, like Dumas. While they're better quality than most pulp fiction, they weren't intended to be hardcore reading for elite college students. You cant blame the Victorian English either, Jane Austen was insanely popular among teenage girls until fairly recently.
>>25338128These are the old entrance requirements of UNC Chapel Hill>Entering students, according to an 1819 publication, were expected to be able to read the Bible in Greek, and to have read Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico (7 books), Virgil's Bucolics and Æneid, and Ovid in Latin, the latter in an "editio expurgata".
>>25336844Elite schools now only exist as a middle management training camp for half-literate brown women and a nepotized diploma mill for the kids of jewish bankers and politicians. Anyone who actually earns their admission and pay every cent are in the minority of suckers that I imagine are the subject of offhand jeering jokes around the jack-off-in-a-casket ritual pledges in the Skull & Bones house’s basement.
>>25337590My god you are a sheltered fool.
>>25338151I chuckled, nice post, anon.
