“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.” SchoolEducationYouthHigh SchoolReformTeensTeenagersHomeschoolingUnschoolingSad TruthYoung PeopleAsylumAutodidactStandardized TestingAutodidactismStandardized Tests Author:Anthony Esolen
“[Today's high schoolers are required to read] a couple of Shakespeare plays...the couple of Shakespeare plays function as an inoculation – that is, you get exposed to 'half-dead Shakespeare virus', and it keeps you from ever loving Shakespeare again, your whole life long. It would be much better if they didn't do that at all! Because [the students] have no linguistic preparation for it, and no cultural or historical preparation for it. They've not been reading English poetry, so the language strikes them as completely bizarre […] and they have no historical place to put it, so they don't know what's going on. All they know is that they're 'supposed to like it'.” WritingHumorLanguageEducationHistoryLearningGeniusReformShakespeareSchoolsFixing Education Author:Anthony Esolen