Education, Popular Culture, Social Commentary Hans Christian Andersen December 16, 2012 Rand Simberg 3 Comments What did children read before him?
Take a look at a grade school primer from a hundred years ago. Reading then was about creating adults. Reading today is about creating adult children.
No children books in the Medieval Ages. Hah. They had Marco Polo’s Il Milione.
Take a look at a grade school primer from a hundred years ago. Reading then was about creating adults. Reading today is about creating adult children.
“What did children read before him?”
The Thomas Hardy Boys?