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Reading 'n riting OK (although there are clever ways of teaching the boy this too) but using literature and drama for anything else but pleasure may ruin the adults' enjoyment. My cleverest English master inveigled us into reading well without us knowing it and did not engage in the nasty habit of others to force the by-heart learning of poetry. Fortunately it was only the clever boys who got to do the 3 r's in 'expanded' mode (Language/Literature, Pure/Applied etc) and so it was only stuff that rhymed that I wouldn't look at again until I was in my thirties (bastards! I say again bastards). The Theatre and the concert hall were for enjoyment rather than the force feeding of 'Culture' and continue to be so. Macbeth, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto (and of course the 1812) remain favourites.
Now I remember it Animal Farm was required reading (perhaps even 1984). Wouldn't go there again (bastards! …...etc.)
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David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
Last edited by Varley; 31st December 2019 at 11:58.
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