The Mystery of Charles Dickens

Re:The Mystery of Charles Dickens by RNCTX on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:22AM (#23455301)

I distinctly remember skipping school when I was about 10 years old and stumbling across the old black and white film version of Great Expectations from the 1950s on the local PBS TV station during that day while my parents were at work.

My parents were not educated people, so that was the first time I knew there was "high art" in addition to "low art." I didn't need to have a formal humanities education or literary parents to know what the difference was exactly, it was just on a whole different level than anything else that was in popular media.

~35 years later I do have a formal humanities education, which I suppose started on that day and never really ends.

Thanks, Charles Dickens.

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Re:The Mystery of Charles Dickens by claudiawerner on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:13AM (#23465278)

I think I recall being shown a black-and-white version of Great Expectations in school; it was really an enjoyable film, and motivated me to get into literature. Fiction didn't stay my curiosity for long (now I'm more interested in philosophy), but for me, it seems education at least helped point me in some kind of direction.

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Re:The Mystery of Charles Dickens by logicslave on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:54AM (#23463775)

Funny, when I was in middle school I found an old copy of David Copperfield at the bottom of my closet. Its a 700 page novel, but the prose at the time blew me away. The drawn out scenes and vivid characters captured my imagination. I dont think I can ever get that kind of experience now, I'm too cynical.

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Re:The Mystery of Charles Dickens by willismichael on Monday June 08, 2020 @10:34AM (#23456811)

It's fascinating that sometimes the most formative parts of real education can happen when avoiding "education".

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Re:The Mystery of Charles Dickens by nyokodo on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:31AM (#23457374)

As the saying goes, don’t let your schooling get in the way of your education.

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