If you compare secondary/college syllabi in the humanities from decades ago to today, you'll see huge shifts toward contemporary materials, a trend usually justified by "relevance," "diversity," or "meeting the kids where they are." Result: gross cultural illiteracy.
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@mark_bauerlein
@frtberg
Somehow I feel old (at 50) that, as a student in a small town Indiana high school in the late 1980s, I translated and studied Cicero, Catullus and Vergil. My four years of Latin was a real humanities course. Thankfully, my sons are getting a classical education
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@RitaPanahi
It results from the need to produce more PhDs every year to keep the whole academia racket going. There’s very little new (of value) to say about Shakespeare, so you get “Transphobia in Lear: An Intersectional Perspective”.
Or else you major in Harry Potter novels…
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