US: Why Teach English?

[Francis Hult]

The New Yorker



Why Teach English?



Whence, and where, and why the English major? The subject is in every mouth—or, at least, is getting kicked around agitatedly in columns and reviews and Op-Ed pieces. The English major is vanishing from our colleges as the Latin prerequisite vanished before it, we’re told, a dying choice bound to a dead subject. The estimable Verlyn Klinkenborg reports in the Times that “At Pomona College (my alma mater) this spring, 16 students graduated with an English major out of a student body of 1,560, a terribly small number,” and from other, similar schools, other, similar numbers.



Full story:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/08/why-teach-english.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true
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