Schools Need Literature More Than Ever in These Authoritarian Times
The 21st Century Principal
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
"Great works of literature--works that are truly dangerous --question and expose that dictatorial impulse, both on the page and in the public space." Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times Why all the sudden "book bans" in our public schools? It is rather simple: to protect an authoritarian perspective of the world, because any literature that has the potential to cause students to question the legitimacy of that view is unacceptable and access to it
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