Education

This article reports on a program in Maryland to use comic books in class. I'm not opposed to it. If the comic books don't focus on the adult or the political as many modern comic books do, it shouldn't present a problem and, let's face it, some children wouldn't read anything else.

Adopting comic books in schools may tell us something about the direction our society is heading, however. I remember when teachers would discourage kids from reading comic books because they felt that the students would be wasting time compared to reading the traditional, more substantive children's literature like Treasure Island or Alice in Wonderland.

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