Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s our roundup of your comments and photos from last week.
Let’s start with a cheering story about the benefits of education, from gavernism:
The strangest thing. In order to try to get my son to read a book he must finish before the end of holiday for his GCSEs I offered to “share his pain” and said we would read it and discuss it simultaneously. We agreed that we would read 100 pages then chat. As I began to read the book I became utterly engrossed in it and couldn’t put it down. I not only became immersed in the whole thing but almost felt the author and characters were there with me as I read. I finally understood why people are obsessed with this book and its author who I would love to have met. Wearily I went to my son expecting him to say it was boring to him, but he said he actually found it fascinating and we chatted about it for a good few hours yesterday. What occurred to me is that I might never have read it but for a serendipitous series of events e.g. the book being on my son’s syllabus, me wanting to find a way to motivate him. The book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and yes, dear reader, after meaning to read it for 20 years, I finished it.
The strangest thing. In order to try to get my son to read a book he must finish before the end of holiday for his GCSEs I offered to “share his pain” and said we would read it and discuss it simultaneously.
We agreed that we would read 100 pages then chat. As I began to read the book I became utterly engrossed in it and couldn’t put it down. I not only became immersed in the whole thing but almost felt the author and characters were there with me as I read. I finally understood why people are obsessed with this book and its author who I would love to have met.
Wearily I went to my son expecting him to say it was boring to him, but he said he actually found it fascinating and we chatted about it for a good few hours yesterday. What occurred to me is that I might never have read it but for a serendipitous series of events e.g. the book being on my son’s syllabus, me wanting to find a way to motivate him.
The book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and yes, dear reader, after meaning to read it for 20 years, I finished it.
