"In other instances, you will dismiss certain authors—but then realize how valuable they were years later. Your first introduction to them plants a seed inside your soul, and it grows over time."
I recently taught some Georges Méliès and Buster Keaton films in a class of future middle-school teachers. They were all thrilled by the films and thought they would make great material for teaching teenagers.
There are two Japanese films, both easily accessible, called "Swing Girls" and "Tampopo". What both have in common is that someone desperately urges a person who doesn't know what he's doing to be their teacher and mentor and it somehow still works out.
One book I find very important but that nobody seems to know is "Hannibal and Me" by Andreas Kluth. I think every teenager and college student should read it, so that they'll be ready for the twists and turns, advances and setbacks in career formation. Kluth is very well-versed in history and a very vivid writer, and he covers the career paths of many people, all the way from ancient times to the 20th century. Hannibal won every battle he ever fought but accomplished nothing in the long run. Meriwether Lewis flamed out early, while his partner William Clark went on to a happy career. Kluth's own uncle had nothing going for him until he was 50 and the US forces put him in charge of his area's economy in Germany. Then he wound up as the architect of the entire postwar German Economic Miracle. It's good instruction on how people's lives follow all kinds of paths and how success can result in failure and failure can result in success.
I would love to try this, but the reality is that I have responsibilities like a 15-year-old autistic son and trying to keep my head above water financially. I also have vision problems that limit my eye usage. In the past 50 years, I have read some of these books, but now I focus my reading and writing on current problems like AI taking over the world! Maybe if I didn't have to sleep, I could read all these books!
I think most of us have reading limitations, so we can use the list like a trail path or something into the back country...no fekking way I can read these in a year (It takes months to read Ulysses, lol) however he also says he reads 250 pages a week per limit, so it is more like an overview
Very inspiring! I definitely want to start reading Plato/Aristotle now. Or perhaps a deeper dive on Aristotle first? He sounds'cool' 😎👍 As I'm not planning on squeezing everything into a year.
Amen for the 52 films
"Maybe the best solution would be to add one movie per week to the assignments—that would give us 52 films over the course of the year."
PLEASE, we want the 52 films!
"In other instances, you will dismiss certain authors—but then realize how valuable they were years later. Your first introduction to them plants a seed inside your soul, and it grows over time."
This is real. I can relate.
I recently taught some Georges Méliès and Buster Keaton films in a class of future middle-school teachers. They were all thrilled by the films and thought they would make great material for teaching teenagers.
Hey, I just read The Luzhin Defense, too! The chapters about the protagonist's boyhood, in particular, are among the best things he ever wrote.
Please do films!!!!!
There are two Japanese films, both easily accessible, called "Swing Girls" and "Tampopo". What both have in common is that someone desperately urges a person who doesn't know what he's doing to be their teacher and mentor and it somehow still works out.
One book I find very important but that nobody seems to know is "Hannibal and Me" by Andreas Kluth. I think every teenager and college student should read it, so that they'll be ready for the twists and turns, advances and setbacks in career formation. Kluth is very well-versed in history and a very vivid writer, and he covers the career paths of many people, all the way from ancient times to the 20th century. Hannibal won every battle he ever fought but accomplished nothing in the long run. Meriwether Lewis flamed out early, while his partner William Clark went on to a happy career. Kluth's own uncle had nothing going for him until he was 50 and the US forces put him in charge of his area's economy in Germany. Then he wound up as the architect of the entire postwar German Economic Miracle. It's good instruction on how people's lives follow all kinds of paths and how success can result in failure and failure can result in success.
I would love to try this, but the reality is that I have responsibilities like a 15-year-old autistic son and trying to keep my head above water financially. I also have vision problems that limit my eye usage. In the past 50 years, I have read some of these books, but now I focus my reading and writing on current problems like AI taking over the world! Maybe if I didn't have to sleep, I could read all these books!
I think most of us have reading limitations, so we can use the list like a trail path or something into the back country...no fekking way I can read these in a year (It takes months to read Ulysses, lol) however he also says he reads 250 pages a week per limit, so it is more like an overview
Very inspiring! I definitely want to start reading Plato/Aristotle now. Or perhaps a deeper dive on Aristotle first? He sounds'cool' 😎👍 As I'm not planning on squeezing everything into a year.
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Any advice for accessing the reading assignments online without having to buy the books is welcome.
sounds ambitious I fancy a go