Wendi/story a la cart/why literature

The problem with textbooks: out of context soundbites, takes out story designed by committee--PC, consensus opinion censored based on current climate

Story is our history, our guidebook, or operating instructions

sanitize/reframe perspective from what it was in different periods in the past

snippets/news style, short attention span

people not reading anymore, losing fluency

trusting the publishers viewpoint

the character brings you into the story--you relate, you experience..not just memorizing facts

reading and speaking is a lost art

when bookmaking was an art form

tribal knowledge