Literature in English class generally serves as reading practice, and as an odd excuse to practice composing thoughts for other people to read. Literature is the vehicle rather than the purpose, unless you’re looking at a literature degree.
I’m curious how to test an understanding of literature, and what purpose one serves. Intuitively, a person well-versed in literature should be better equipped to write or recommend fiction than a person who is not well-versed in literature. Is there another benefit one might test?
Hmm.
So, it’s not sufficient to define a set of steps that determine a number… it must be possible to execute them? That’s a rather pragmatic approach. Albeit it one you’d have to keep updating if our power to compute and comprehend lengthier series of steps grows faster than you predict.