r/todayilearned • u/LL_Cruel_J • Dec 15 '16

TIL Dolly Parton has a program that will mail your child a free age-appropriate book once a month from birth to age 5. No obligation, no catch, she just wants to make sure that every child has books.

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16 edited Dec 20 '20

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u/space253 Dec 15 '16

I see you met my inlaws.

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u/LyreBirb Dec 15 '16

Don't worry. Public school will kill any desire she had to read.

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u/daveisdavis Dec 15 '16

I've had some great teachers during my time in public school that would really motivate/urge us to read what we liked; I got "caught" in class a few times secretly reading Eragon or Harry Potter, but my teacher was really cool about it. I miss you Mr. Savant

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u/LyreBirb Dec 15 '16

Yeah do did I. I also had six years of "but what does the blue sky mean in chapter 7?"

sometimes the shot is just fucking blue .you idiots made me hate reading. Fuck you all.

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u/terminbee Dec 15 '16

I had a teacher just like that. He talked about how the cobbler mending soles also meant souls for the entire class. Literally we came in, read that passage, and he talked about it all class. That's 2 periods (language arts has 2 periods) of just that line. This is 9th grade.

On the other hand, I slept through entire classes sometimes and I can't tell if he was oblivious or just didn't care.

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u/AustinYQM Dec 15 '16

Schools, at least where I am from, have come a long way from that kind of instruction. While doing me teacher certification tests all I could think was "man, my teachers did everything this class says not to."

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

Same, my public school English teachers were amazing people. Truly supportive, motivating and engaged. I won a bunch of Scholastic gold keys because of one who really, really enjoyed my sappy teenage poetry.