/lit/ - Literature

I've avoided e-readers until I was recently handed a 3rd gen Kindle and found it pretty useful. What is the main benefit of using a Kobo instead of Kindle? Is it worth buying an updated e-reader?

>>17763379
To be honest I have to agree though I liked the book, it seemed as though Fisher was projecting his own hopeless depression onto the society around him. This doesn't mean that all of his observations are wrong though. His section about university students and depressive hedonia is very accurate and deeply troubling.

>>17706788
I had a few different English teachers.

The first one was really good. She had a definite passion for literature and teaching and was obviously frustrated with the texts we had to study, but she still encouraged us to analyse and engage with them. She took a liking to me and a few other students and recommended us for the top set. When I actually got to the top set it really changed my view on education. Our teacher was supposedly the best in the department and had apparently won some kind of award for teaching, but she was a wholly dispassionate careerist with no interest whatsoever in English. We read the mark scheme more than the actual texts-everything was about answering exam questions and getting marks. She didn't allow any kind of dissent (on the rare occasion we were allowed to discuss) and she accused me of being a misogynist for not liking her. Her reputation came from the fact she basically min/maxed her students, no lasting love for English made it out of her classroom alive. It was really demoralizing to see a teacher that truly cared stuck with the morons and a teacher that didn't allowed a monopoly on the brightest students, one which I suspect (from things I heard from other teachers) she maintained through bullying and leveraging her status. But it cemented my cynical suspicion that what really mattered in education was results, which you can call me naive for thinking but when you have a good teacher that fact is rarely if ever apparent.

After her I got sent back to the lower set but we had a different teacher, I don't remember much about her other than that she had a huge ass and I wanted to fuck her really badly, I was also simultaneously pining for the attention of a really average scene chick at the time- nothing ever happened there, but that was probably for the best.

As for pointers, the best teachers I had were the ones that were passionate and down to earth. Strict disciplinarians just inspired resentment for both them and the subject. Make your students like you but don't be a pushover, that's how you get mutual respect. Make your students look forward to your lessons. Remind them why they love the subject. Try to balance exam preparation with actual learning, my favorite teacher used to show us pictures of war injuries and Viet Cong traps in-between drilling us with dates and figures. That's just my advice, you know more than me though.