Discount Book

To make read popular works and allure the most Young People possible, or impose works considered to be more difficult and lead the pupils to go further? C’ launched by a file published in the Press is the debate one week ago, discusses which s’ is continued in the blogist of l’ leading article, over Cyberpresse, this week. Indeed, Monday, we asked our readers to propose titles of books to us which should appear in the program of the Québécois schools.

To date, 180 people answered our call, going there from general comments or proposing authors to us who, in their opinion, are impossible to circumvent. Our readers rake broad: d’ Albert Camus (L’ foreigner) with Bryan Perro (Amos Daragon) while passing by 1984 d’ Orwell, the count of Assembles-Cristo of Dumas or Don Quichotte de Cervantès… The list long and is very diversified. A constant however: books of the soil n’ do not have the dimension. With title d’ example, several commentators very seem to have found testing the obligatory reading of Occurring of Germaine Guèvremont, however very a beautiful book, or of Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hémon. Large Meaulnes also seems “to have traumatisé” some pupils. It is released from this mixing d’ ideas two opposite visions of the reading with l’ school: d’ a side, holding them of the pleasure above all, which claims accessible and liked works young people.

In their opinion, if one imposes too complex or exceeded works, one will direct the pupils and one will discourage from them reading. Among these people, some even hold up “the right to read n’ import what” defended by l’ writer Daniel Pennac in his test Like a novel. They forget d’ however; to add that Mr. Pennac made the distinction between the good books and the bad ones and that, among the bad ones, were the novels which propose strong feelings, finer feelingss, a formula what! This is really the role of l’ school what to make read such books? Absolutely not. We rather line up side of those which conceive the literature like tool d’ training. Like us, a very great number of our readers estimate that l’ school is the place privileged to propose to the young people more difficult readings.

Thus let us leave with those which wish it the leisure of reading novels like Twilight or Harry Potter with “l’ outside” of the walls of l’ school, and rather let us offer to them more stimulative books like those of Romain Gary or Cervantès, for example. The role of l’ teacher, in this context, is d’ to accompany the young person, to put l’ work in context, to locate it in l’ history. Several of our readers thank d’ elsewhere a former professor to have strongly encouraged them (not to say to force) to read the traditional ones. With the passing, they appreciate l’ effort and its dividends. With final, although the positions are well camped, a report s’ impose: it does not matter the tastes and the convictions, the reading is a subject which still impassions.