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I was on a podcast discussing War and Peace! Just came out on YouTube today!
Check it out and let me know your thoughts
youtu.be/l7szvtxOLhc?si…
Joshua D Phillips
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Joshua D Phillips
@JoshPhillipsPhD
University Professor. Assoc Head Coach for @WT_Wrestling. I read old books, lift heavy weights, and mostly post about Tolstoy.
Joined January 2015
- Students shouldn’t read The Great Gatsby in high school Wait until you’re 27. Have your heart broken. Get disillusioned by corporate America. Have a few nights where you drank too much Then read Gatsby
- Just taught a class of 20 incoming freshmen During the discussion I asked them: "How many books have you read in the past year?" Every single one of them said "zero" We have a major problem
- Students should be reading old books. Books that built and sustained civilization. Books their ancestors read Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Twain, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Whitman, KJV Bible To deny students these books is to deny them a foundational understanding of their culture
- FYI: If you post your bookshelves, I’m zooming in on the titles and judging you.
- Replying to @cenkuygur"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions" G.K. Chesterton
- Replying to @MorePerfectUSA handful of tech bros are completely reshaping our country w data centers and AI No one voted for this. There wasn’t even a discussion Ours lives are changing without our consent
- Replying to @financedystopNot gonna lie. I was getting real mad at this guy until the 45 second mark.😂😂
- Replying to @TheDunkCentralBecause he’s holding back. And he’s holding back because he’s had so many injuries. It’s a subconscious way to protect himself He’s scared that if he goes 100% he’s going to get injured immediately and be out for the season again.
- Replying to @MorePerfectUSSingle-family home sales should be restricted to single families
- Dear Humanities majors Do ur best to get through this list by end of college 1. Iliad 2. Odyssey 3. War and Peace 4. Anna Karenina 5. Les Miserables 6. The Count of Monte Cristo 7. Crime and Punishment 8. The Complete works of Shakespeare 9. Dante’s Comedy 10. Don Quixote
- The entire Harry Potter series is 1,000,000 words long War and Peace is only 600,000 words long If you can read Harry Potter, you can read War and Peace, and you should
- Of all things, “reading classics” and posting a normal list of books an AP Lit teacher would have handed out circa 2001, is now right-wing coded I hate this 🙄
- Call me weird but I think everyone would benefit by memorizing a few great poems Nothing crazy. A Sonnet, a Psalm, half a page of Whitman or Tennyson or Keats or Dickinson Just something you can always have with you in the back of your mind. On the tip of your tongue
