From: Rarelyjohnmartin@akapost.comRead
"Chan Welbourne" wrote in message
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> Sirius Black formulated on Saturday :
>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:56:15 -0400, Wilford Dumont wrote:
>
>>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:54:41 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You will have to talk to Victor Dix about Allen Bloom at UC, I
>>>>>>>>>> hear he was
>>>>>>>>>> a terror. :o)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dr. Bloom was a superior educator, a Great Text advocate. Funny
>>>>>>>>> enough, it
>>>>>>>>> was one of his ideas which drew me to Harry Potter and that was
>>>>>>>>> the idea of
>>>>>>>>> the shared text. As far as I can see, Harry Potter is the shared
>>>>>>>>> text
>>>>>>>>> universally.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Universally and unilaterally regardless of educational background.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No way. What about English majors?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see "unilaterally" challenges you.
>>>>> Story goes that Dr. Bloom almost always asked his English literature
>>>>> majors what was their shared text. They rarely had one in the post
>>>>> modern era.
>>>>
>>>> It used to be the Bible but I don't know of but a few who have read it
>>>> end to end these days.
>>>
>>> Pre-1960 there were a couple of others that were part of the social
>>> noir.
>
>> How about Animal Farm or 1984, there has to be something every Eng Lit
>> major has read.
>
> You would think but that's not the case. High schools and universities
> differed as to what texts are required to be read/studied. Rarely did
> everyone across the unilateral universe ( of Wil Dumont l-) ) have a
> common text.
Our class was given first day a book that every student was required to
read. This became our shared text; in my case it was Plato's Republic.
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