[dighton]

An axe to the root of our culture

[cornelis]

Grassroots politics in a dumb-down age is, well . . .

[IronJack]

Oh, I thought someone had been trolling the AF sites again.

[stlrocket]

Here's a protester doing the best he kan to make people aware of the problumb (rhymes with dumb).

HERE MY PROTEST!

[petuniasevan]

This comes as no surprise to you, I'm sure.

Why are the British people standing for this excision of great literature from the school curricula?

What a loss of knowledge - one of the worst sins a nation can commit upon itself.

[Archaeus]

Mr.Rees-Mogg has made some excellent points. But the educational systems of the past and present were and are driven by different forces with different intentions.

From the Renaissance to the early 20th century, education was seen as a means for the cultural advancement of man.
Now, our system of learning is geared towards producing workers with enough knowledge to perform assigned tasks.

Michealangelo and Mozart.
vs.
Marilyn Manson and crap on canvas.

See?

[IronJack]

I'm not sure what this author is "angling" [pun intended] for. Is he actually publishing editions of these authors? Or is he simply lamenting the universal decline in literary acumen? If he represents a publisher, I would be interested in seeing a catalog of his offerings. There are several authors here I'm interested in but whose absence in my personal library is sorely felt.

[VERITAS25]

This new example of "book-burning" is a logical policy in the minds of the leaders of pyrmidal-socialst states. They believe that only they have the right to think and the right to decide for their subjects. However, there may be an antidote. The answer may be free-enterprise. Why cannot privately-owned lending libraries be set up which would be open to the public for research and the lending out books; all to be done for a fee. Those who object to their government's policies should "do something" positive to remedy the situation. This governmental dumbing down of education and culture should be viewed by us, not as a tragedy, but as a private-enterprise business opportunity.