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A Minnesota middle school teacher had problems getting through the magic of reading to the illiterate, spaced-out cretins in his eighth grade English class. His solution? Irrelevantly and inappropriately comparing the plots of Homerian epics to Sega hedgehogs who can just run really fast.
In short, he started comparing the plot of Sonic the Hedgehog to The Odyssey. That got the little snot-nosed buggers' attention.
The 1UP article on this story contains this curious quote: "The Odyssey and Sonic the Hedgehog comparison seems a little off, but if it's helping kids understand their literature, it can't be all bad." Comparing The Odyssey to Sonic is like comparing Ernest Borgnine to the Unbearable Lightness of Being. How can the little turds be expected to understand The Odyssey when they think that it's all about how Odysseus had to free Telemachus and Penelope by jumping through them at high speed and turning them back to bunnies and chickens?
