Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Why everyone stopped reading." video.

You bought and read a book... sound of one hand clapping. ;-)
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@Larkinchance All I am saying is that you either didn't have proper math education in school or you weren't paying attention. Math is NOT the same as computation. I have not calculated a single sine or cosine to six decimals in my entire life by hand and I am physics PhD. I know what sine and cosine functions are good for but I leave their calculation to my CPUs.
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@jonathanvonwowern-barrefor6618 Which glasses? I need at least four different strengths now. One for reading, one for my computer, one for tv and one for driving. I am contemplating adding a fifth pair because an uneven number of bullet points is more aesthetic than an even number. ;-)
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You obviously never read a science textbook. ;-)
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@IJNIP-sb4tu You had a series of disturbing life events and needed to unwind. Also sound of one hand clapping. None of this means anything to the topic.
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A calculator doesn't do math. It performs arithmetic operations. Math is the intimate understanding of rules like the commutative property a+b=b+a, the associative property (a+b)+c=a+(b+c) and the distributive property a(b+c)=ab+ac and their consequences. Unless your kid learns these things, it is completely clueless of mathematics.
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@Fracasse-0x13 At around 180-200 pages the novel can be read conveniently in 1-3 days.
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@Fracasse-0x13 The book has been annotated by millions of people before. It doesn't need your idiotic comments on it in addition. Just enjoy it the way it was meant to be enjoyed: as entertainment. Literature is NOT work, unless you are a professional critic.
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Nah, you just got older.
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And there is the foolish person who decided that (s)he would make a great teacher without ever having done any teaching. Dude(dess), you are full of yourself. Spare the children a taste of your overflowing ego.
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10 or even 15 minutes of reading won't help your students. You should know better than that instead of grabbing at straws.
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@blaketrent8548 So let's say you force a student to read a 500 page long novel (I had to read two of those in high school.). So what? It's just 500 pages of the same style of the same author. At most the kid will notice that even the best authors typically disintegrate after roughly two thirds of the book. The modern novel is, in my opinion, a forced literally exercise. Authors compete for who fails an impossible task most gracefully. Have them read short stories and plays, instead. The quality of writing is usually much, much higher in the best examples of those. Your obsession with reading time is also just that. An obsession with numbers. A kid who has an actual interest in literature will be able to read an entire book in a day at home and that kid will be reading dozens, if not hundreds of those over the years. To the others it simply doesn't matter.
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Depends what your kid wants to become in life. If he or she wants to be a literature critic then reading matters. If not... well, no harm no foul.
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In other words, you are drinking too much. ;-)
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@chalktalkwithshari4173 In a well run education system it would take 60 minutes to teach all of the material that is contained in 45 minute units. The students have to spend the additional time at home (or a multiple thereof) to catch up. If you are teaching less than that and you have playtime over, then you are at most breeding idiots who will know even less than you do. ;-)
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And there is your problem. I bet you can't tell me the high school definition of energy without looking it up. It's 13 words long. None of these tests make any difference unless we teach students to put knowledge to use even after they leave school.
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Reading isn't nearly as enjoyable as watching. Why do you think did they invented theatre? The difference between the past and the present is that you can have theatre any time you like now. It's no longer restricted to one or at most a few buildings in larger cities. You can literally have it in the palm of your hand.
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@mikepotter5718 No offense if you are a fan, but I was disappointed by both versions. Tolkien is just not that great as a writer. His work is certainly an interesting literary experiment but that is all it is. I would agree that there are authors that are better in form of a book than as an actual play. Shaw is one and I think so is Jean Giraudoux, The characters of their plays are better left as abstract archetypical representations in the reader's mind than transformed into actual theatre or movie actors or worse... stars. But then... good luck getting a modern kid to read either Shaw or Giraudoux.
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