There's a lot of value in teaching the literature, but ONLY if you do it PASSIONATELY.
It can be just going over the texts if you aren't passionate. But if you are - you open the students' eyes on the insights of greatest writers of all times. You contribute value by bringing to them the value contained in all the literature you discuss with them. Without you, those value would never be delivered to them. You can also share your own insights that you got while reading the books. Teaching literature is a great medium for contribution, if it's aligned with your life's purpose and you do it passionately, so it becomes your creative self-expression.
My advise: Focus on how the literature can change students' lives for better adn what lessons they can extract from the texts instead of just explaining what author meant and how did he express it
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