From: janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com   
      
   On 24.04.2021 23:25, Your Name wrote:   
   >   
   > Forcing school kids to watch b-o-r-i-n-g so-called "classic" films or   
   > read b-o-r-i-n-g so-called "classic" books is simply a complete waste of   
   > everybody's time. For most kids all that achieves is to stop them   
   > bothering to watch/read such things ever again.   
      
   What's boring or not lies in the eye of the beholder. Forcing pupils   
   to read something at school is inherently problematic; literature or   
   films vary in quality, topics are depending on the personal interest.   
   Neglecting quality literature, specifically classic ones - i.e. such   
   sources that long time attention has confirmed their quality - isn't   
   an approach any good. There's a reason why Shakespeare, Dostojevsky,   
   Goethe are still "alive". There's a reason why from the contemporary   
   masses of literature most will be forgotten. The same with films;   
   Fritz Lang, Eisenstein, Godard, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, just to name a   
   few, are not only noteworthy milestones. Luckily there are instances   
   that foster that culture. Where I live (for example) there's a Film   
   Museum that reconstructs for example old expressionistic films from   
   sources all around the world. Not every genre fits everyones taste,   
   but to provide that large set of classic work to young folks, folks   
   that is typically fattened with commercial products of quite unique   
   form and structure isn't a good approach. Young folks should be given   
   an insight in the pluralism of works, books and films, so that they   
   can decide by themselves where their interest lies and choose their   
   sources in a broader and more informed way.   
      
   Janis   
      
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