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Debate:Is Romeo and Juliet appropriate? (view source)
Revision as of 17:56, August 31, 2007
, 17:56, August 31, 2007→Nay
Absolutely. There must be mountains of material that is artistic, educational and wholesome. When I was at school, we did R&J, and worse still, were instructed to see the film (Zefirelli version), which led to regrettable impurity of thought. So I know whereof I speak. [[User:Pachyderm|Pachyderm]] 13:47, 31 August 2007 (EDT)
Absolutely. There must be mountains of material that is artistic, educational and wholesome. When I was at school, we did R&J, and worse still, were instructed to see the film (Zefirelli version), which led to regrettable impurity of thought. So I know whereof I speak. [[User:Pachyderm|Pachyderm]] 13:47, 31 August 2007 (EDT)
:Well, the essence of any literary work is conflict, so what would you have high school students reading? I'm a librarian myself, I'm not sure there are 'mountains' of young adult literature that don't contain violence or difficult choices about sexuality. I ask again...what specific works of fiction would you assign teenagers to read? [[User:Ozark|Ozark]] 13:53, 31 August 2007 (EDT)
:Well, the essence of any literary work is conflict, so what would you have high school students reading? I'm a librarian myself, I'm not sure there are 'mountains' of young adult literature that don't contain violence or difficult choices about sexuality. I ask again...what specific works of fiction would you assign teenagers to read? [[User:Ozark|Ozark]] 13:53, 31 August 2007 (EDT)
: The less racy Jane Austen novels might be a good place to start. ''Sense and Sensibility'' is one of the more moral of them. Anything from the Elizabethan/Jacobean canon is likely to be regrettably carnal. [[User:Pachyderm|Pachyderm]] 13:56, 31 August 2007 (EDT)
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