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- Title: Where Have the Readers Gone?(Critical Essay)
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 165 KB
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OF LATE WE HAVE BEEN READING and hearing much about the decline in reading abilities and interests among the student population, including even graduates of high schools and, one might add, of institutions of higher learning. We are rightly disturbed by the statistical surveys and results, but we should not be surprised. Whatever their immediate relevance and context, however, these surveys need to be more critically evaluated in terms of what they unequivocally tell us and what they mean. They need to be seen beyond mere symptom and portent if they are to help us to measure the deeper educational problems and the cultural conditions that they mirror. Only when we penetrate these larger problems and conditions will we begin to comprehend what exactly they reveal about American society and character. Somehow, it seems, we are comfortable with, or resigned to, disquieting reports and statistics that keep reaching us, as we also abjectly accept our difficulties and disappointments, almost perfunctorily awaiting a new batch of reports dealing with, say, teen-age gangs or with the magnitude of mental depression and the rising suicide rate among the younger generation. And so it goes, ad infinitum, from better to worse.