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Reading Club

Original use of free time

The reading club is a weekly meeting between a teacher and several students to better understand a novel, a classic of literature, that allows us to delve deeper into it and relate the meaning of the work with our experience.

The usefulness of the gesture, in my opinion, lies in three questions:

First for all for an original use of free time. We are in a society where free time is considered to be the time in which we do not work, and many times what we see is that it is a time that is used to distract ourselves, to “pass the time” between two times limits in which we are working. My experience of the book club is to take advantage of free time to be able to trace, to glimpse a reality that allows us to live all the circumstances in a new way, a moment where we can renew our look at reality from its roots, and not from superficiality. which we are accustomed to and which ends up wearing us down, and taking away our motivation and energy. It is an attempt, aided by a genius who has captured that same desire in a written work, to return to the roots, to the origin.

Teenage girl reading a book in a bedroom
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A path of knowledge

Secondly, it is a path of knowledge in which the different subjects are related in an interdisciplinary way, to the extent that they are useful they refer to a true experience that a man has done or is doing. We try to use reading to help us delve deeper into the question of who man is and what reality is, and how this question has been answered from different disciplines and at different times. In this sense, sometimes we use movies, an episode of a series, or a story by another author to delve deeper into the questions posed by the writer of the work we are reading at a given moment in the book.

A place

And third, it’s a place. If there is a driving force for knowledge and civilization, it is precisely the two questions mentioned above (who am I and what is the reality that surrounds me made of), and if there is a time where it is difficult, not only to answer but only to pose them, it is ours. We are used to discussing many things with others, let alone since the use of social networks or WhatsApp has become widespread. You just have to think about how emails have replaced the letters we previously sent each other and the loss of depth, richness of language that this may have entailed. In this sense, we comment on many things but we keep those concerns, those wounds or desires that reality presents to us for fear that others will not understand us, or even worse, not take us seriously. Reading a great work allows us to bring out that part of our person that we don’t even take into account through the experience of its characters, and gives us the possibility of looking at ourselves in a more human way.

Prof. Joan Aicart

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