NP - I should never have encouraged my son to read

[Joe Allonby]

Surely the best way to get someone to enjoy reading is through making it a
punishment.

Thanks for this. I'm still laughing.



On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:56 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/parenting-facts-and-arguments/i-should-never-have-encouraged-my-teenage-son-to-read/article2263717/
>
> "My son's friendship with Dostoyevsky has been a disaster for any kind
> of authority I might have wielded. A father wants simply for his house
> to run in a peaceable and agreeable fashion. The Grand Inquisitor and
> the Underground Man have subverted that ambition more surely than any
> radical political program could."
>
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