Comment by maxerickson
20 days ago
It's hilarious to explain you can't be assed to read a novel for a class that is about literary analysis and then also say It scares me as well how little interest my peers have in actually learning.
Part of the idea of courses that aren't direct job skills is that you will have done it and learned from it.
This is nice when you have the time to sit down and enjoy literature at a leasurly pace. It's not nice when it's one of many obligations that comes with its own deadlines and tests.
In fairness, this is the standard university experience and has been for many decades. You either figure out how to balance your time and make the grades or you don’t.
Making the grade often has nothing to do with actually doing the reading. Why there are cram courses and distilled notes that students sell.
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Oh we don't get novels to read for class in university. Any reading would be voluntary
The article you are responding to was about a professor who is assigning his students to read Dostoevsky.
Well, you can't expect him to have read it!