There Is No Wisdom in Sin - Chapter 11

Man: The Dwelling Place of God ^ | A.W. Tozer

[ravenwolf]

What grade did you read shakespeare in? I just went to the seventh grade and that was in 1950 and I don`t remember reading it although I have heard of it a lot.

[Elsie]

I guess I'm showing my age, but I thought everybody had to read Shakespeare in school

Not in central Indiana.

[Elsie]

You may have been victims of that wrong-headed thinking.

Couldn't tell ya.

I DO know that most of us graduated.

The Gummint did NOT subsidize sin the way it does these days.

[AnAmericanMother]

OK - in 6th grade we actually put on a somewhat abbreviated version of Twelfth Night in my English class (I can still sing the songs). 9th grade was Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet was AP English which I think I took in 11th. Got bits and pieces of As You Like It and The Tempest somewhere along the way, probably in one of those excerpt books, but most of us went and read the rest. We did study the sonnets and Venus and Adonis as well. And the school's theater group did Hamlet. They are still doing Hamlet - I graduated in '73, my daughter in '06, she was on the light crew for the Prince of Denmark and could quote you whole scenes verbatim. They are probably putting it on again even as we speak.

But we didn't waste a lot of time on multi-culti trash.

[AnAmericanMother]

It didn't start out as sin . . . it started out as what I think was a charitable impulse to be "inclusive".

What they forgot is that you can go out to meet people where they are, but you can't stay there. They have to come back with you; if they won't, you need to leave them there.

[AnAmericanMother]

I don't remember what year we read MacBeth - I do vividly recall our English teacher giving us a dramatic reading of Lady MacBeth's "Out, out damned spot!" speech. She was very good.

[ravenwolf]

The only grade I remember anything is the seventh, the teacher read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.