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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
What about the classics?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I was in the bookstore the other day and saw a lot of people buying last minute gifts. A noticed two people were stacking up on hard cover copies of the classics - works by Dante, Kafka and others.
I started talking to both of them and they were each retired teachers. They decided to buy these books for their grandchildren because they worried that they weren’t taught in school anymore.
Part of the problem may be that some of these works aren’t relevant anymore. (Here’s a list of “Great Books.”) Think about it, how many high school students can you imagine reading Kierkegaard?
Should we be worried that when kids hear Homer they think of Simpson first? What classics do you think students must read?
