Walker Percy, the Search, and My Job As Reflector
My 12th grade students read Walker Percy’s novel The Moviegoer over the summer and so we’re discussing it now in class. I love teaching novels that almost everyone...
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I Read Dead People
“There never was a time when those that read at all, read so many books by living authors rather than books by dead authors. Therefore there was never a time so...
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On Reading
Reading is an extraordinarily complicated intellectual act, which leads some people to think that it can only be taught by experts. In this it parallels, motherhood....
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The Power of Metaphor
Reading through The Bible and the Task of Teaching by David I. Smith and John Shortt has me thinking about the power of metaphor. It doesn’t take much to do...
Read MoreThe Death of Literature and How To Stop It
If you are not rendered functionally illiterate by being subjected to incompetent reading instruction in American elementary schools and you are not rendered...
Read MoreWho Needs To Read, Anyway?
The College Board announced last week that this years SAT reading scores were the “lowest on record.” In fact, their scores in math and writing also went...
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