Well, I'm not certain that's true to quite the same extent here, actually, although I'm sure some parents would complain loudly; I get more of an overall sense of Just Not Quite Polite, which is perhaps more insidious on some level because no-one has to shout so it's relatively easy to miss the problem.
Unrelated to the queer issues but there's also the fact that making people read Important Classical Authors when they're not in the right place to be able to appreciate them... different people will be able to understand different things at different ages, but I think it's safe to say you're not going to get the most out of Shakespeare age 13. I wouldn't have understood Virginia Woolf properly in my mid-teens. There are things that just aren't there sometimes and which you do need.
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Date: 2010-09-14 07:43 am (UTC)Unrelated to the queer issues but there's also the fact that making people read Important Classical Authors when they're not in the right place to be able to appreciate them... different people will be able to understand different things at different ages, but I think it's safe to say you're not going to get the most out of Shakespeare age 13. I wouldn't have understood Virginia Woolf properly in my mid-teens. There are things that just aren't there sometimes and which you do need.