Posted on 10/25/2019 6:51:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
To assume an English major took a class in Shakespeare is a pretty safe assumption, or at least it used to be. Now, not even the Bard of Avon is safe from censorship, as university administrators and faculty use the education system to drive their own agendas.
At the University of California, Los Angeles, English majors are no longer required to study one of the greatest writers of all time. Instead, they have to take classes in “Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Disability and Sexuality Studies” and “Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial Studies,” in addition to critical theory and creative writing.
Dost thou ask why? “To expose students to alternative rubrics of gender, sexuality, race, and class,” according to the UCLA catalog.
Shocking, isn’t it? This English department took out Shakespeare to drive its own ideological agenda. While I didn’t particularly like Shakespeare as an undergraduate student obsessed with the modern American novel, this is still a tragedy.
The desire to expose students to a certain viewpoint and to censor others isn’t limited to the hallowed (Shakespeare-free) halls of UCLA’s English department. It is a problem plaguing students of all majors at universities and college campuses nationwide. Addressing this issue is especially important as we celebrate Free Speech Week.
Universities are supposed to be a marketplace of ideas, where students are exposed to different viewpoints and given the opportunity to debate them. That marketplace of ideas doesn’t just simply appear overnight like a farmer’s market on the quad selling overpriced maple syrup (even if it is totally worth $14). Students are exposed to these ideas through the different classes they take, the student groups they engage with on campus, and the subsequent conversations they have.
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Maybe they can study Edward de Vere instead.
Political correctness has usurped education.
Liberals
...Ruin
…...Everything
“They may have read Romeo and Juliet.”
My kid once came home & told me his high school English class was studying R & J,
The teacher had advised that the movie, starring Leo DiCaprio & Claire Danes, was “too hard” and had supplied instead a “textbook” in comic book form and written in “normal” language which was ghetto slang.
Mercutio was, IIRC, a homeboy.
I provided him with the Bard’s own version, along with a volume of Shakespeare’s plays written in novella/ form and in in modern, yet proper, English.
LOL. Even less likely.
There’d be no basis for comparison.
Literally.
Good points !!!
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