Four Reasons Literature Needs to Be Saved From Its Teachers0

• Education
• October 20, 2020

“We read a lot of literature in high school,” a first-year student explained to me. “And that’s why I don’t like it.” When I asked her what she had read and how it had been taught, she answered: “‘Huckleberry Finn.’ It shows that slavery is wrong.” If you didn’t know that already, I thought, you