Control of education has long ago been surrendered to the faaaaaaaaaaaaaar left and even in the most elite/best private schools, the best of Western Lit classics/masters ( European and American ) is hardly ever taught/read now; sadly.]
Absolutely true. I hang around a college coffee shop and bookstore at a state university in Western Oregon, and am appalled at how uncultured and ignorant so many of the young people are.
Leftism has failed wherever it has been tried.
OTOH...there were/are non-lefty people, who put down erudition and being well read and/or cultured, which I find weird.
Not every book, "art" form appeals to everyone, however, to not even try to learn about things is STUPID! Besides which, a common "culture" is one of the things that binds a nation and her people together!
Now, it seems as though as everyone and everything is pigeonholed/compartmentalized by race, socio-economics, ethnicity,plunged down into the basest common denominator and such. And THAT stinks!