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Philosophical...yet...so Comic Book.
If we take a young child with a good reading comprehison. With a lifespan of 100 years. We make him read EVERY single comic book EVER publish till this date.
Do you think he will finish reading all of them before his death?
Or would he die and never finish reading them?
(Digi, Tron, and pr1983 I'm looking at you guys) 😉
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Good topic.
Reading is reading, and reading tons of comics is more than a LOT of people can say when it comes to their reading history, so the jokes about being stupid aren't terribly justifiable.
I'm of the mind that he'd be in some trouble trying to complete his task. What are we considering comics? Just English-language comics? Does he have to learn other languages, or just browse the comics written in a different language? Does manga count? Comics strips like Peanuts, Garfield, etc.? Pornographic comics that are distributed online?
It's a long list. If we narrow it to mainstream English-speaking comics, sure, it's very doable. Otherwise, catching up and keeping up with the vast amount of material that's put out would be nigh-impossible.
Originally posted by DigiMark007
Reading is reading, and reading tons of comics is more than a LOT of people can say when it comes to their reading history, so the jokes about being stupid aren't terribly justifiable.
As a teacher you should know that having experiences outside of fiction is important to learning.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
As a teacher you should know that having experiences outside of fiction is important to learning.
As a teacher, I know that reading anything is important to learning. You want to be a better writer, read. A better listener, read. Speaker, read. Student, read. Thinker, read. Etc.
Ideally, yes, a person's reading experience is diverse. But there's a large percentage of the population that Cliff Noted their way through school and haven't touched anything deeper than Cosmo or ESPN magazine since then. Comic reading >>> that, especially some of the more eloquent stuff like Moore or Gaiman, even if it's still not ideal.
Originally posted by DigiMark007
As a teacher, I know that reading anything is important to learning. You want to be a better writer, read. A better listener, read. Speaker, read. Student, read. Thinker, read. Etc.Ideally, yes, a person's reading experience is diverse. But there's a large percentage of the population that Cliff Noted their way through school and haven't touched anything deeper than Cosmo or ESPN magazine since then. Comic reading >>> that, especially some of the more eloquent stuff like Moore or Gaiman, even if it's still not ideal.
How will this kid ever learn to think in any meaningful way? He would know absolutely nothing about reality. At best he'd seem like an autistic savant but with even less connection to others.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
How will this kid ever learn to think in any meaningful way? He would know absolutely nothing about reality. At best he'd seem like an autistic savant but with even less connection to others.
Oh, we're talking about this thread. It's a hypothetical situation. I was talking more about the real world, where sometimes getting a kid into comics is the only reading you can get him to do, and it's better than nothing. I would never advocate solely comics...but TV, newspapers, magazines, school books, etc. give us a more complete view, even if it's still up to the person to expand their own knowledge. Nobody lives inside the vacuum that WD's scenario presents, so it's cool to think about but not really valid as a starting point for educational theory.
Originally posted by DigiMark007
Oh, we're talking about this thread.
Yeah, seeing as how this thread is about . . . this thread 😛
Originally posted by DigiMark007
It's a hypothetical situation. I was talking more about the real world, where sometimes getting a kid into comics is the only reading you can get him to do, and it's better than nothing. I would never advocate solely comics...but TV, newspapers, magazines, school books, etc. give us a more complete view, even if it's still up to the person to expand their own knowledge. Nobody lives inside the vacuum that WD's scenario presents, so it's cool to think about but not really valid as a starting point for educational theory.
I thought you were saying that a person could get a reasonable education just reading comic books for a few decades. Hence teh confusion.
Originally posted by DigiMark007Hey Digi you're going to love this.
Oh, we're talking about this thread. It's a hypothetical situation. I was talking more about the real world, where sometimes getting a kid into comics is the only reading you can get him to do, and it's better than nothing. I would never advocate solely comics...but TV, newspapers, magazines, school books, etc. give us a more complete view, even if it's still up to the person to expand their own knowledge. Nobody lives inside the vacuum that WD's scenario presents, so it's cool to think about but not really valid as a starting point for educational theory.
Last week I was sitting in class and then someone was talking about a General Class he was taking and how is assignment was to read a comic book.
I looked back and I saw him holding Marvel Civil War. 😛