Originally Posted by James

I think it's one issue that can constantly be improved, and in most cases across the world improved drastically.
Kids shouldn't read great works of literature so they can quote dry chunks of analysis, they should read them because they teach them about life. The minute students aren't engaging with the material, something's gone wrong.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.