{"id":648,"date":"2026-02-06T06:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/stop-meeting-students-where-they-are-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:23:44","slug":"stop-meeting-students-where-they-are-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/stop-meeting-students-where-they-are-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Meeting Students Where They Are &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn\u2019t have a great name other than reading. We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to \u201cmeet them where they are,\u201d a bromide that has become doctrine for higher education. We have to do as Whitman says instead: Stop somewhere ahead and wait for them to catch up.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/02\/youth-reading-books-professors\/685825\/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ9G0bbc5hKiuHSZF9vJGim4\">www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/02\/youth-reading-books-professors\/685825\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn\u2019t have a great name other than reading. We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to \u201cmeet them where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,3,7,36],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-books","tag-consciousness","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}