Gerald Graff: The Business Of Learning To Like Books
The Business of Learning to Like Books
Gerald Graff has had a distinguished academic career; receiving his BA in English from the University of Chicago and his PhD in English and American Literature from Stanford University. Throughout his career, he has taught at various universities and is currently a professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Today’s summary is about and excerpt from Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education (1993) called “Disliking Books.”
When the author was a young man he wasn’t able to relate to any assigned readings to his life and once n college often found reading to be agonizing and foreign. He frequently failed to finish famous classics
Gerald Graff has had a distinguished academic career; receiving his BA in English from the University of Chicago and his PhD in English and American Literature from Stanford University. Throughout his career, he has taught at various universities and is currently a professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Today’s summary is about and excerpt from Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education (1993) called “Disliking Books.”
When the author was a young man he wasn’t able to relate to any assigned readings to his life and once n college often found reading to be agonizing and foreign. He frequently failed to finish famous classics