Archive for July 18th, 2007

Classics Cannot Be Compulsory

Children ’should read classics’
Children should be made to read classic literature by Dickens, Shakespeare and Joyce, according to authors such as JK Rowling and Philip Pullman.
The writers were among those asked by the Royal Society of Literature’s RSL magazine to name 10 books children should read before leaving school.
Poet laureate Andrew Motion picked such [...]

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