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zedatkinszed t1_ixr3g5k wrote

Reply to comment by homecountygent in People who are forced to read a lot (e.g. students), how do you find the time/energy to also read for pleasure? by FrostyGenie

Speaking as someone who teaches literature and media students and who taught drama at university for years.

You'd be depressed by how many don't read/watch films/go to plays. It's a really weird phenomenon

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homecountygent t1_ixr5o2y wrote

In some ways, I suppose, it works out better to be an autodidact. Not likely to be burnt out, perhaps

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zedatkinszed t1_ixr61ql wrote

I mightn't have been clear in my post. It's not that they don't read or watch for pleasure it's that they don't at all.

I once had a woman of 20 come up to me in 2nd year of a media course, in a module about films, telling me she has never watched a film!

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