What We're Reading This Week!
Loving this book I found at Vroman's Bookstore! I had a hard time picking a quote that I liked the best. I hope you like this one! - Stephanie
"I read two books that were, in retrospect, vital to my intellectual awakening. The first was John Steinbeck's
The Grapes of Wrath
. It seemed as though we'd studied American history every couple of years since elementary school, and the teachers always talked about the Great Depression, yet I had to sense of the suffering of the people who had lived through it. Most stunning to me was Steinbeck's portrayal of how greedy banks and corporate farmers had taken advantage of the Okies and used the police against them. When people tried to organize, the cops murdered them. Why hadn't they taught us how it felt to live in different times, instead of just barraging us with the dates and facts? Too much of learning then, as now, was rote memorization. The kids of assignments we were given and the homework we were make to do was incredibly boring and pointless. To me, it was not work worth doing." - Tony Wagner
