Podcasts that mention 📚 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

For instance, consider a teacher teaching Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn' where the word 'nigger' appears over 200 times.

Randall Kennedy discusses the complexities of using the n-word in education, using 'Huckleberry Finn' as a key example. He notes that teaching this particular book often leads to significant challenges for educators who may include excerpts from it.

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You know, my buddy Spencer just wrote this great...I'll plug a book that's not my own! He just came out with this great book, 'Light of the Mind, Light of the World', which makes all of these points, and it does so beautifully!

Michael Knowles mentions his friend Spencer's book 'Light of the Mind, Light of the World', highlighting the book's exploration of higher power and its influence on the modern world. This mention occurs in a discussion about understanding atheism through human behavior.

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Just things that, you know, they thought they'd be reading Huckleberry Finn; they were like eight years, eight and six years old.

The speaker shares a story about her parents deciding to remove her brothers from school in the 1990s because they disagreed with the book selections. They preferred books like 'Huckleberry Finn', considering them more appropriate than the contemporary options available at the time.

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