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Subido el 13 de octubre de 2026 por Angel Francisc B.

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Do you think children should be made to study classic literature at school? 00:00:06
I don't know about the classic literature bit. 00:00:12
I kind of think it's been similar for a long time, hasn't it, 00:00:14
the kind of texts that you have to study at school. 00:00:18
I think it's far more important to get children into reading, 00:00:20
and I think there's such a diverse range out there now of, you know, 00:00:23
young adult books and all kinds of things that children might be interested in 00:00:29
that I think is more relative to kind of what they're going through 00:00:32
and might inspire them to get reading 00:00:36
and then maybe progress to some classics if they wanted to. 00:00:38
So perhaps the more important thing is actually just to get children reading 00:00:41
whatever type of literature that takes. 00:00:45
Yeah. 00:00:49
Rather than what it is that they read. 00:00:49
I mean, arguably, if a child is given Shakespeare, 00:00:51
Shakespeare can be really hard to access, can't be really hard to read. 00:00:53
And a child who doesn't find it easy to read 00:00:57
actually just might find that really difficult. 00:01:00
It might just put them off reading. 00:01:02
I think that's the important thing. 00:01:03
it's all about when it's introduced yeah I remember and how actually yeah and how definitely 00:01:05
yeah I think I remember being a 14 15 year old in class reading Shakespeare and thinking what 00:01:09
is why on earth are we doing this yeah I couldn't think of anything more useless I think and then I 00:01:18
remember a turning point at about 16 thinking hang on this is actually quite interesting 00:01:23
This is someone who wrote something 500 years ago 00:01:29
and I'm sort of getting what they mean. 00:01:33
I think there was something really quite magical in that. 00:01:36
There was that continuity. 00:01:39
And maybe if you hadn't been made to read that, 00:01:40
you'd have probably never picked that book up off the shelves. 00:01:42
Yeah, I think that's the thing. 00:01:44
If you don't do it at school, when will you see the classics? 00:01:46
And I guess it's how it's taught you as well. 00:01:50
If you see it as kind of a boring text that doesn't mean anything to you, 00:01:53
but then with Shakespeare, for example, 00:01:57
all the idioms and all the language that he created, 00:01:59
that makes it more related to everyday life, doesn't it? 00:02:02
Yes, yes. 00:02:05
But then I think some classics... 00:02:06
I read my first Jane Austen recently 00:02:08
and just the dialogue and it's quite long-winded 00:02:10
and they're all obsessed with marriage and stuff 00:02:15
and that just kind of turns you off, doesn't it? 00:02:17
So I think it depends on the books. 00:02:20
Yes, I think it does. 00:02:24
and how they're put across, I think is really important too. 00:02:25
And maybe classical, but also being part of a much wider curriculum. 00:02:28
Yeah, definitely. 00:02:31
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