#5 Click this link to see Blog page --> 14/hp/es/2 Shakespeare ZombiesIn my travels across the vast Internets the other day I stumbled into a pit of Zombies dedicated to English Literature in general and Shakespeare specifically. The title of the opinion piece was Why Cant We Teach Shakespeare Better? I could not resist the temptation to make the comment, The better question might be, Why bother to teach Shakespeare at all?. And we were off to the races. I have to admit I was simply passing some time verbally sparring with these people but I was a little surprised that these so-called Liberals were so completely brainwashed and inflexible. They simply refuse to believe that the ONLY reason a 400-year-old dead guy is relevant today is because Education Zombie snobs continue to cram it down our throats. I dont usually see this kind of adolescent push back from so-called educated people but I could make no dent in most of them. And it quickly descended into them accusing me of being a Tea Party idiot who never read a book, would never amount to anything and my children were doomed to a life of low brow existence. To be sure I had asked for this abuse and was not offended. But I was disappointed that my tribe of Zombies, the Liberals, could be so proud of their superiority, stiff necked and insulting, and in the long run more obtuse and ignorant that the #GQP people they professed to abhor. They cannot accept or understand that entire generations of high school graduates forced to read this archaic prose simply refuse to read anything the rest of their adult lives because they equate reading with the mind numbing boredom of English Literature. Even worse, we have kids that graduate and can barely read Fun With Dick and Jane. So the Education Zombies are turning our kids into Low Brow Zombies by trying to force them to read and understand literature that is 400 years old. Not very relevant to this century. And the really sad thing is that Shakespeare was considered Low Brow in his own time. He was the Bard for the people in his own time. And now the elite Zombies of the world are trying to pass him off as something he never was in life. A close minded egomaniac with pretensions of superiority. He wasnt a Zombie but centuries later it seems he created an entire Zombie culture. |
MjL |