Agree with Tom. Fern, you really nailed that time. All so clear in memory. And the "standard" curriculum, such as it was, meant that all over the country students were reading the same thing. I could generally expect that first year students at Oberlin had read the same shakespeare or poetry iand other general things. Not when I retired. (Not arguing for the same works over decades, but a "general" culture across all sorts of divisions.....
With better education on all those similarities, that should still be the case. Unfortunately, too many kids arrive at college today having to spend their freshman year taking "remedial" classes for all the stuff the system failed to properly teach them in high school.
You nailed that time, Fern.
Thank you for this morning's read, Tom.
Agree with Tom. Fern, you really nailed that time. All so clear in memory. And the "standard" curriculum, such as it was, meant that all over the country students were reading the same thing. I could generally expect that first year students at Oberlin had read the same shakespeare or poetry iand other general things. Not when I retired. (Not arguing for the same works over decades, but a "general" culture across all sorts of divisions.....
With better education on all those similarities, that should still be the case. Unfortunately, too many kids arrive at college today having to spend their freshman year taking "remedial" classes for all the stuff the system failed to properly teach them in high school.
Too true. More to say but not this evening.....