{"id":88,"date":"2015-02-12T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/?p=88"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:05:38","slug":"new-york-timess-frank-bruni-on-the-value-of-literature-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2015\/02\/12\/new-york-timess-frank-bruni-on-the-value-of-literature-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times’s Frank Bruni on the Value of Literature in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times<\/em> columnist Frank Bruni talks about the role his experience in literature classes has played in shaping him as a citizen.<\/p>\n

As he puts it of one memorable lecture, “She demonstrated the rewards of close attention. And the way she did this \u2014 her eyes wild with fervor, her body aquiver with delight \u2014 was an encouragement of passion and a validation of the pleasure to be wrung from art. It informed all my reading from then on. It colored the way I listened to people and even watched TV.<\/p>\n

It transformed me.”<\/p>\n

See the whole column at\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/11\/opinion\/frank-bruni-higher-education-liberal-arts-and-shakespeare.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni talks about the role his experience in literature classes has played in shaping him as a citizen. As he puts it of one memorable lecture, “She demonstrated the rewards of close attention. And the way she did this \u2014 her eyes wild with fervor, her body aquiver with delightContinue reading “New York Times’s Frank Bruni on the Value of Literature in Education”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasons-to-study-literature","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":314,"url":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2015\/05\/28\/one-med-schools-commitment-to-accepting-english-humanities-majors\/","url_meta":{"origin":88,"position":0},"title":"One Med School’s Commitment to Accepting English & Humanities Majors","author":"Dr. Joseph E. 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