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Originally Posted by Charlatan
The key to understanding the classics, especially the idiosyncratic language of Shakespeare, is having a good teacher....
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Dude, I am catching what you are pitching.
In order to communicate with people, to have your ideas presented clearly to others requires a certain command of the language. How are you supposed to vent without Shakespeare?
Hey, it's like listening to the Beatles, Presley and Led Zeppelin. How can you appreciate contemporary music today without knowing where music came from?
Folks, what scares me is that you are relying on a guy in a room making 26 grand a year to tell your kids what to read.
Do you think these fucking teachers have read Shakespeare? Chaucer? I bet not. They got a couple of classes in English Lit under their belt, and they plagarized the fucking essays in the first place. The Lesson Plan spoon-feeds the shit they are supposed to discuss. They don't care about Shakespeare any more than your kids do.
But Charlatan said it, and I agree: Once in a very long time, you get a teacher who is passionate about literature, and they enstill that passion into those around them.
You don't like stuff pulled off of the curriculum in schools? I find it funny and ironic.
Buy your kids the classics, and show them how important they are.
I haven't read EVERYTHING Shakespeare wrote, but I have read enough to enjoy his work (and get the jokes when people make fun of him).