[Sherman Logan]

I taught literature at a Catholic high school for 20 years. I found fictional literature a most excellent vehicle for young adults to discuss, analyze, and assimilate moral values. In fact, no work of non-fiction literature can take its place.

Plutarch, Josephus, Plato, Gibbon and Churchill can't be used to discuss and analyze moral values?

Beg to differ.

[jobim]

I used the Introduction to Great Books, mostly comprised of non-fiction essays, also to delve into moral questions. They are equally important,

I guess you missed that statement. I indeed used Plutarch, Plato, Gibbon, and Churchill regularly, in both history and English classes. My point is that they are two distinct categories, and both are crucial, and neither can be dispensed with.