In English speaking countries English literature classes in which students read fiction should be abolished as a graduation requirement for High School and Universities for all Majors and the English Literature Major should be abolished from any University that receives taxpayer funding
but fully agree that schools should not be funded by taxes, at all.
How do you believe they will benefit by reading stories that are declared to be fiction meaning that the events never happened according to the authors claims
It is like reading a textbook for history class except the textbook writer claims the history never happened but you have to learn it anyway
Why?
"Beowulf" is English Literature, for example. "The Tale of Genji" is Japanese literature, but it can be assigned in an English class as it is considered the world's first novel, and one can learn a lot about the Heian period in Japan by reading that novel. I had to read Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and I believe that was the only pre-class summer assignment I very nearly thanked the teacher for assigning, but instead I could only ask him if he were positive I was really in that class because I was the only guy in there and he started assigning Jane Austen novels right away. The same applies to her novels as well though, not that I ever cared for the English gentry (or for being coerced into playing one) or how English chicks dedicated their whole lives to competing to be trad-wifed back then. Just joking, they were gold-diggers back then too. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” NOTTT.
Oh yeah, even though it's another chick book and the 'protagonist' has to be the worst character in it, one can't forget "Gone With the Wind." If you haven't read "Gone With the Wind," are you even a real American? Believe it or not, you'll learn more about that period from "Gone With the Wind" than you will from reading a generic "Social Studies" textbook chapter on the so-called American Civil War that won't even tell ya the Emancipation Proclamation didn't free a single slave. Where else are you going to learn that "Ashley" was originally and historically a BOY'S name? Until the 1960's. Feminist women are the original trannies.
How about you again cut corners and reduce class time by having them read primary historical documents from the civil war time period instead of a fiction book or a history book
Students also have different learning styles and reading material preferences. You're not going to be able to teach a History class to High School or lower level college students with primary source documents exclusively. Moreover, they're not necessarily going to learn more about History in terms of 'historical facts' or how History is constructed from just reading primary source documents. Especially if they don't really understand those primary source documents, what a primary source is, how to use them, and/or where they can locate primary source materials on their own to perform their own historical research and potentially even write their own history books.
What are you going to use to teach the whole Civil War with just primary source materials anyway? Contemporary newspaper articles with their own issues? Abraham Lincoln's correspondence? Government documents? A collection of diaries from (White) people of all walks of life and relevant regions that will have to be photocopied? Documents with Frederick Douglass in his own words that don't mention his Jewish girlfriends like Ottilie D. Assing, or those fine words of other abolitionist spinsters who squealed when they realized they were used as a means to an end and their feminist lesbian dreams were not going to be realized? Everyone could read the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in its entirety. That will turn Boys into Men and Girls into teenage drop-out drifters who enter the workforce via the Lolita Express ("girls FTW!")
Edit: Whoops, this is besides the point, but I forgot that girls just make an OnlyFans now to achieve independence through monetizing their pornographic content, and when they enter the workforce it's not on the Lolita Express but for real money as port-a-potties. And that's all I have to say about women liberation shit.