A
sophomore at the University of Virginia has a great column in the Huffington
Post here advising his professors that their lectures would be much more effective
if they wove stories into them. It’s a
great column and must have taken courage for the student to write.
I
love this column. I taught high school
English for 37 years, and always saw that the livelier and funnier the class
was, the more students learned. I took
to heart what a psychologist told me one time:
if you learn something when you laugh or cry, it's a "hot
cognition."
And
the power of stories is just one reason it's so important to develop a love and
habit of reading in children. Not only
will they then acquire sophisticated reading skills, they will learn so much
history and culture and, often, politics and science effortlessly--just from
stories they are enjoying.
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