Value of Reading

Kicking off the new website/blog with this wonderful guest post from Rebecca Curry!

I once had a college professor begin a world literature course by explaining that he did not expect us (the students) to love every piece of literature we read, but he hoped we would gain an appreciation of classic literature. This was pleasant news to most students in the course, as many of them were not English majors but Bachelor of Arts degree-seekers who simply needed to fulfill a literature course requir...