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> On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Eric Beck wrote:
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> > If this is true, is it different from the more recent past? That's a
> > real question. Very few of my contemporaries (born in '69) read for
> > pleasure, and when they read because they had to, they didn't read
> > very well, it always seemed to me.
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> > Tentative answer: Kids read all the time. They just don't read "texts."
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> I had classes in college where we were supposed to read 200 pages a week -
> and the average was 4.5 classes a semester (36 required to graduate). It
> stuns me that anything over 30 pages is considered too much.
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And I'll bet that's still the case at Yale, more or less, anyway. Certainly
when I was a grad student in the 90s it was.