THEORY: Hogwarts curriculum

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No: HPFGUIDX 112140

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" <nrenka at y...> 
wrote:
> Maybe there is a wide and flourishing tradition of wizarding 
> literature--there are certainly books, of course.  There is no 
> evidence of the classroom presence of reading literature in order 
to 
> read literature, though; reading through a book as a class to 
discuss 
> meaning, interpretation, all of that jazz, this seems to just not 
be 
> there.  And the kids and the entire WW are intellectually 
> impoverished from it.

Historically, people read a lot more FOR ENTERTAINMENT than most 
people do today, so maybe, lacking tv and radio, the wizarding world 
thinks of it's literature more as a form of entertainment. The same 
used to be true for music, with the number of people who could play 
decreasing when recording technology came along. 

I also suspect that if the wizarding world relies on muggle schools 
(along with homeschooling) for early education, they probably also 
rely on the muggle educational system for higher levels than 
Hogwarts provides. I can picture them going into appreniceships to 
study magic-related feilds in depth, but going on to a muggle 
university to study something were the wizarding world and muggle 
world overlap. Afterall, why create a seporate system of their own, 
when the majority (the muggles) already have one in place? I see 
Hogwarts as the school for what they can't get from the muggle 
schools.