/lit/ - Literature

>>23096714
do you have fond memories of being taught shakespeare? shakespeare might not be surprised to know that his plays are still bringing money to producers throughout the world. he would be greatly surprised, however, to know that they are studied (by compulsion) in the classroom; they are conned by scholars, dissected by pedants, and fed in synthetic and quite distasteful doses to students.

i'm not talking about languages in particular. robert graves, for instance, said homer needs to be freed of the classroom curse. if you read the works of some of these older writers, rather than they're early life & education section on wikipedia, you might see what some had to say on all this latin & greek.

>>23096714
do you have fond memories of being taught shakespeare? shakespeare might not be surprised to know that his plays are still bringing money to producers throughout the world. he would be greatly surprised, however, to know that they are studied (by compulsion) in the classroom; they are conned by scholars, dissected by pedants, and fed in synthetic and quite distasteful doses to students.

robert graves, for instance, said homer needs to be freed of the classroom curse. if you read the works of some of these older writers, rather than they're early life & education section on wikipedia, you might see what some had to say on all this latin & greek.