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It will strike those outside the teaching world as ridiculous that there are teachers who celebrate the death of the novel and the play as the predominant text forms studied in English. 'Down with Shakespeare, down with Dickens!' they cry, for it is their view that the form of traditional literature, as well as the content, is contaminated by the slew of likely -isms: racism, sexism, colonialism and so on

The frequent claim that Aboriginal culture is the oldest continuous culture on Earth is a curious one. First, it is factually incorrect, as that distinction belongs to the San people of South Africa. Second, how did this strange alliance of white political progressivism and indigenous cultural conservatism come to exist and why does it survive?

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Sensus communis Memory has tied you to a word. Are […]

Henry VIII declared that 'scolers of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge that go about begging' and playing 'subtile, crafty and unlawful games such as physnomye or palmestrye' should lose an ear by way of punishment. Alas, that the Tudor remedy for quackery, albeit with less bloody penalties, are not in effect in our modern universities

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