“Dot Mobile, a company offering mobile phones to students, has hired Professor John Sutherland of University College London to provide subscribers with text message summaries and quotes from literary classics…”We are confident that our version of ‘text’ books will genuinely help thousands of students remember key plots and quotes, and raise up educational standards rather than decrease levels of literacy,” Dot Mobile said in a press release.”
That’s as may be, but summaries and quotes from the great works are already in plentiful supply, I honestly don’t think having them in text speak is going to help students remember them. Besides, isn’t it the nuances of the stories the kids are supposed to learn? I’ll leave off a rant about “the classics” for a more appropriate forum…
This is just part of a wider movement to “talk to kids in their own language” that has been going on for a while…
I did like the “Woe un2mnkind” translation from Paradise Lost.
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