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Because he is too hard for affirmative action students to follow?
Because he is too hard for affirmative action students to follow?
Is it because Shakespeare is too white?
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There has been an argument in UK education for decades if not centuries that Shakespeare is too complex for younger pupils to understand.
It is partly true. You need life experience to appreciate Shakespeare in any depth, but many of Shakespeare's plots are universal. That's why there are children's versions of Shakespeare, the earliest of which was Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare.
If younger students get exposed to Shakespeare in small and simplified chunks they might be able to appreciate him later on in life.
But too much teaching about Shakespeare is academic and off-putting. Shakespeare needs to be seen on stage, or at least on a DVD, before trying to understand the text.
There are only a few lines in this extract but it shows more of Shakespeare than the bare text:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkmSIy8PayY
It is partly true. You need life experience to appreciate Shakespeare in any depth, but many of Shakespeare's plots are universal. That's why there are children's versions of Shakespeare, the earliest of which was Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare.
If younger students get exposed to Shakespeare in small and simplified chunks they might be able to appreciate him later on in life.
But too much teaching about Shakespeare is academic and off-putting. Shakespeare needs to be seen on stage, or at least on a DVD, before trying to understand the text.
There are only a few lines in this extract but it shows more of Shakespeare than the bare text:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkmSIy8PayY
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Education and culture have been dumbed down to the point where these same sharp minds believe that the US Constitution is null and void because they cannot understand its language...
English has become a foreign language!
English has become a foreign language!
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Education and culture have been dumbed down to the point where these same sharp minds believe that the US Constitution is null and void because they cannot understand its language...
English has become a foreign language!
In the UK the standards of grammar teaching are improving because many schools now have some children for whom English IS a foreign language. Formal grammar and linguistics help to understand the mechanics of English. The average child born since the Millennium understands grammar better than their parents' generation.
Children whose native language is/was not English tend to use English more accurately - except in the playground where they learn informal English as well. (and English kids learn to swear in a range of languages!)
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It's hard to drag a child in the US away from their phone long enough for them to actually focus on reading something as old fashioned and uncool as a book.
