Welcome to the University of WOKE! Leicester has ditched Chaucer, is 'decolonising' its syllabus and marks 'International Womxn's Week'... no wonder it's turning into a first-class failure, says GUY ADAMS

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 22, 2021 | Guy Adams

[C19fan]

Even though it may not boast any dreaming spires or belong to the Russell Group of leading universities, there was a time not so very long ago when Leicester University punched well above the weight of its provincial rivals.

Named Britain’s ‘University of the Year’ in 2008, with a heritage that encompassed great thinkers such as novelist Malcolm Bradbury, a former student, poet Philip Larkin, one of its old librarians, and Sir David Attenborough, who lived on the attractive campus as a child, it was home to nearly 23,000 students.

Exactly a decade ago, Leicester came 17th in the Guardian University Guide’s national league tables, and was also top university for ‘student satisfaction’ outside Oxbridge.

[C19fan]

Says something about the age we live in when reading Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dickens is considered subversive.

[napscoordinator]

I couldn’t stand reading them. Obviously I have no idea of the upgrades. But reading a modern book might be interesting.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

This English Historian agrees with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UquZosu3ebY

(History Debunked channel on YouTube)

He has lots of politically incorrect videos, has a wry sense of humor, and plenty of real experience and so he speaks from authority.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I can still remember memorizing the first few stanzas of Beowulf in the Old English and also parts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

I loved all of that material especially the Faerie Queen.

Exposing kids and young adults to that material opens up their imagination. Drowning kids and adults in woke nonsense is just going to stifle creativity, which I imagine is the overall plan. The AI will be allowed to be creative, while we humans will be shuffled off into meaningless paper-pushing jobs until our declining fertility rate guarantees our ultimate demise.

[seowulf]

WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne.

[freefdny]

I was very proud of my then teenage daughter who while having an argument with her mom over something silly called her Grendel.

[IrishBrigade]

‘WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote...’

what a beautiful rendering of the mixture of evolving Norman French and Anglo Saxon...

[seowulf]

Not only are the Canterbury Tales fine poetry, it is witty and funny. English has a great history of poetry, from Beowulf to Tennyson and more.

There is no reason to hide them, other than an attempt to turn us into mediocre minds.

[seowulf]

Whatever you do, don’t tick off Grendel’s mother.