18 is not a magical number.

My legal studies teacher joked (with a dead-straight face, too) that the morning that we turned eighteen, a light bulb would go off in our heads and we'd know everything. Judging from how things are set up in Canada and the US, apparently eighteen is the year in which all the worldly knowledge that's missing in children ( Read more... )

So, I was reading SBTB (which is usually really funny as well as astute) and went to read the comments on this entry.

Paraphrase of original article: Sarah argues that the reading of Great Literature isn't the only way that children will be educated, and that the supposed dearth of teenaged readers is not the end of the world. And I am all with ( Read more... )