The Novel and the Common School
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Popular schooling, newspaper reading and the demand for fiction meet in Charles Dudley Warner's essay on American intellectual life. He begins with improved food and physical health, then asks whether wider access to education has produced stronger judgment and better literary taste. His criticism of newspapers focuses on scattered reading, brief treatments of many subjects and the loss of sustained attention. The novel enters this argument as evidence of the reading habits that schools help to form.
Warner's classroom examples turn the discussion toward what children read and how teachers guide them. Greek myths and essays about flowers, birds and animals offer ways into history, art and observation, while study aimed chiefly at examinations can leave pupils unable to understand literary references.
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Book facts
- Author
- Charles Dudley Warner
- Reading time
- About 30 minutes
- Pages
- 16
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Educational
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online