Mark Bauerlein response to Marc Prensky

That's an interesting take on books, Marc, and while most works could, of course, be abridged, I'd hate to see a single word removed from Inferno, Paradist Lost, Essay on Man, Middlemarch, Souls of Black Folk, The Sound and the Fury, The Comedian as the Letter C, . . .

On the "Bauerlein classroom," too, I'm ready to volunteer, and one of the things I do with freshman writers (I teach mostly freshman and sophomore courses by choice) is disallow the use of a computer on first drafts. An old method, yes, but remember that the nondigital space I proposed has modest reach--only one room in the school and only one period in the school day.