This book is about the great changes that have taken place - and are still proceeding - in humanistic education and learning throughout the English-speaking world, though they are most advanced in America. This is a matter of great social importance. From elementary school through university, literature and history are two of the most significant aspects of the education of young people. The effect of a profound change in the way the subjects are taught and in what teachers are trying to achieve in teaching them is therefore far from trivial - especially when part of the purpose of the change is to transform students' attitudes toward the society in which they live.
- From Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis
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