Recipe for ruining great books:
Step one: Take a bona fide classic, fresh or preserved.
Step two: Hack out palatable chunks (never use the whole book).
Step three: Add a liberal sprinkle of received interpretation.
Step four: Supplement the text with a movie version.
You are now ready to force-feed this to children who are not old enough to digest such a diet – this is incredibly important to the ruining of great books. You will need to ensure that children endure sitting after sitting of the above. Of course, they should add tasting notes to their texts, but be careful to make sure they never have original thoughts about what they are consuming.
If you follow these very simple steps, you can be sure that the majority of children will be put off reading good literature for a significant portion of their lives.
Continue reading here: https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/why-teaching-classic-literature-too-early-a-recipe-ruining-great
An education blog from Aidan Severs Consulting (www.aidansevers.com)
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