BklynMagus wrote:
>>It's totally fucked up. The high-school kids I know
>>
>>
>wind up having homework the ENTIRE summer to prepare
>for AP classes.
>
>During one summer during high school I read through the
>novels of William Faulkner with afternoon breaks to
>watch Cinema 13 and have my first exposure to the films
>of Bergman, Anonioni, Fellini, Clair, Prevert, etc.
>
>Summer homework is not a bad thing. It is mrerely a bad
>thing for those who are not of a geeky/scholarly bent.
>For someone like me, the rigor and discipline I developed
>that summer has served me well throughout my life.
>
I spent every summer vacation of my entire youth reading everything I
could get my hands on.
But I chose what, where, when.
There is no music without silence; there is no learning without breaks...or at least without self-directed learning.
Joanna