Should Schools Eliminate English Literature? (3 Reasons Why They Should)

English Literature should be eliminated in schools and universities across the Western world.

And here’s three reasons why from an Oxford Educated English Literature student.

Reason #1: Colleges professors don’t know how to teach English Literature anymore anyway. They just seek to brainwash.

Today’s English Literature degree in many colleges across the Western world is all about culling the canon of problematic straight white males from the colonial patriarchy.

English Literature today is all about identity politics, inherited guilt, and shame.

Professors and students go into incredible amounts of debt so they can sit around doing the following:

• Taking writers out of their time and angrily damning them or misreading them.
• Reading authors through various irrelevant socio-cultural-political lenses. Applying marxism and feminism theory to everything and everyone.
• Investing attention in writers based on identity rather than merit or historical and aesthetic importance.

Are some professors fighting the good fight?

No doubt.

But those professors would likely also agree with me today that the humanities department at any Western university is a toxic, alienating, angry, volatile, vitriolic cesspit of self-loathing anarchists.

Reason #2: Colleges are heading that way anyway, let’s speed up the inevitable.

They’ve axed Poetry as a subject across schools in England.

And by “axed”, I mean they’ve made it voluntary.

Which is the same as cancelling it completely because, let’s be real, how many students are really going to voluntarily choose to learn poetry?

My 12-year-old self wouldn’t have attended voluntary Maths or Physics classes, I’ll tell you that. But my 28-year-old-self certainly knows the value of them.

We need poets now more than ever, and perhaps the institutions know this and fear the truth-tellers.

So add poetry to the ever-growing list of things that are problematic for various reasons, and you might as well throw all of English Literature out with it.

Reason #3: College education is now overpriced and redundant.

20% of those originally headed to Harvard next year will choose not to.

And I think that number will climb when others see the reasoning and follow the crowd.

That means parents footing their kids’ bills have become way more discerning.

Education is almost completely online right now due to COVID.

But the extortionate price-tag is still the same.

Why?

The only good reason to go to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, and the like today is for the brand name and networking.

Take out the networking, and all you have left is a very expensive piece of paper.

One which many employers don’t give two shits about anymore.

So, yes, eliminate the subject that is so dear to my heart.

Then perhaps people will stop giving their money to these de-education institutions.

And perhaps a new much-needed educational paradigm will fill the vacuum left behind.

What do you think?