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Americans are violently opposed to the practice of reading
I've talked to so many people who proud themselves on not having read a book since leaving school.
School does a good job of teaching people to hate reading.
one of the ways i got motivated into reading as a little kid is one of my teachers would hand out candy whenever i finished reading a book and took a short quiz on it. very effective! my grandma would also do story time over the phone and stuff
We had a program at our school that would give you a coupon for a free pizza every 10 or so books that you read (this was grade school so they weren't really too long, think beginners level chapter books), which worked pretty well for me. Now as a grown adult, I wish I still had a way to get free pizza.
Apparently Pizza Hut
still has the Book It! program lol
Yep, that is it! Completely forgot the name, but I do remember that it was Pizza Hut. I'm more surprised that they're still doing it, I figured they would have killed that off by now. I want pizza now.
What the heck! I wanted candy when I was younger too, it would have been nice to have your teacher.
Yeah, I agree. I only got by when I read books for my own enjoyment. Really made me appreciate Shakespeare for example, particularly Hamlet and King Lear.