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“Is Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead simply glib and superficial?”
Some thirty years ago now, it was one of the English essay questions put to me in my final year at high school. My written answer—‘Yes’—was perhaps itself a little glib and superficial and deserving of its low mark. But I was eighteen years old and going for the laugh. I suspect they would not ask such questions these days, for it would be deemed too demanding, too excluding, too elitist, too unfair. After all, it would require a pupil to read, comprehend, think, and write. Heaven forbid. In the eyes of the liberal-left that simply will not do.
To elevate or dumb down, this is the issue. And given the grey and spoon-fed nature of our age—in which no-one may excel or do better than the rest—it will be presented in a bite-sized and multiple-choice format with reference books allowed. Nothing too challenging, you understand. That would be to infringe individual rights, to raise the sight too high. It is all part of the liberal-left agenda. They claim to want everyone to start from the same point. What in fact they desire is for everyone to end there. How bleak and dull. How uninspiring. Small wonder our students prefer to sniff solvent.
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