READING IS “FUN” (IF YOU FOLLOW THE “PUN”) by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ Nowadays, boys & girls (with the exception of a few), seem to have very little time to “read”. I refer to “books” here, not the iphones in their hot little hands, sending & receiving breef, ungrammatical, atroshusly spellt mesages from both frens & fos’.I am given to believe that SOME University scholars cannot even compose a “resume” that could possibly get them a job. Mr.Gonski is as shocked as I am. His “schooling methods” are fine, but he should also insist that each “wannabe” Parliamentarian read at least two good books before they are permitted entry into any University in Australia One could be “What is War good for”? by Leo Tolstoy’s younger brother Noel & the other being the entire works of William Shakespeare, taking a “full term”, paid for, by the parents of ...

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