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9th January 2009

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Letting new classics in

12.02.07

Changes in the English syllabus are always resisted on the grounds that they are rejections of both our language and our heritage, writes Roy Hattersley in the Guardian. "But while I do not want the established classics out, I realise the necessity of allowing new classics in."

"The syllabus Luddites' views on the English curriculum are far more political than mine. They want to use it to make English men and women in their own image. I want it to give an educated nation the pleasure that ought to stimulate more reading. Books were meant to make us glad. And the way in which they are used in schools can make or break our enthusiasm for them in the years which follow."

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