Entries tagged with "education"

Great Expectations in education

posted by srah on March 30, 2003 3:50 AM

Tags: books, charles dickens, education, high school, jane austen

Reading Great Expectations for the first time, I am inspired to question the value of my education. I took advanced English classes in one of the best public schools systems in Michigan, but I don't remember ever reading Charles Dickens in school. I don't even recall any excerpts from A Christmas Carol in my textbooks. What is going on here? I read Oliver Twist on my own a few summers ago and found it very clever and funny. I've tried A Tale of Two Cities twice but I've never been able to get into it, which turned me off from...

Do you ever wish

posted by srah on December 13, 2001 3:10 PM

Tags: education

Do you ever wish you had less education than you do?...