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...with the names of these groups should be enough to signal that this is not a debate substantially about issues--at least that's not what everyone talks about. Somewhere along the line, the ideas of PC, if there ever were any, got lost. Nobody talks about the literary canon anymore, or about Eurocentric ideas...
Fundamentally, Hirsch is aiming at a controversial objective: a national core curriculum for U.S. students. The professor created the Core Knowledge Foundation of Charlottesville, Va., which spent four years defining material for each grade. The Hirsch canon was tested last year at a Florida elementary school. The materials represent a consensus among hundreds of educators consulted by the foundation. "I do not believe there is such a thing as one best core knowledge," Hirsch says. "What's absolutely essential is getting political agreement about a specific core, so that we can get on with the job." One omission: Bible stories...
...roll being co-opted and certainly why not? But on the other hand, there are successive waves of punk and rock and Dylan and others that rise fresh in a generation. After a while even Shelley was co-opted. He was revolutionary and then he was part of the canon. But then when you read Shelley or Blake you suddenly realize that it breaks through all canon or all reactionary and status...
...very conservative, I am glad to be out of there," he says. "I will not miss being stereotyped as a left-wing activist hellbent on destroying the canon of Western literature...
...very conservative, I am glad to be out of there," he says. "I will not miss being stereotyped as a left-wing activist hellbent on destroying the canon of Western literature...