And again.

The Atlantic, The elite college students who can’t read books

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.

The Connecticut Mirror: This Hartford Public High School grad can’t read. Here’s how it happened.

When 19-year-old Aleysha Ortiz told Hartford City Council members in May that the public school system stole her education, she had to memorize her speech.

Ortiz, who was a senior at Hartford Public High School at the time, wrote the speech using the talk-to-text function on her phone. She listened to it repeatedly to memorize it.

That’s because she was never taught to read or write — despite attending schools in Hartford since she was 6.

Leiter asks a question. Read the answers.

I have gradually reduced the amount of reading that I assign in Philosophy classes and added documentaries and videos where possible. 

repeats. start here, work back to a defense of illiteracy by a friend of Henry Farrell, and then further.