Here’s a depressing and blunt comment from Larry McMurtry, speaking not only as a novelist but as a bookstore owner (it’s an interview):
The end of the culture of the book. I’m pessimistic. Mainly it’s the flow of people into my bookshop in Archer City. They’re almost always people over 40.
I don’t see kids, and I don’t see kids reading. I think little kids love to have stories read to them, but when they get to 10 or 11 or 12, they ...
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The article hits on the most important issue facing education today: how to involve students and get them interested in really learning. The centuries old techniques–lecture, books, essays, tests, curriculum developed once by teachers and used for years–are failing miserably. Far from being motivated, students are bored and truculent. Why not develop educational tools like digital games and texting that not only reach today’s youth, but actively involve them in the process?
