More importantly, they can explore it themselves! We don't need some professor giving out lessons on Shakespeare's attitudes toward feminism, or speculating on whether or not Chaucer's Miller was a commentary on toxic masculinity. The books, themselves, and the resources to understand them, are all available for free right now! You don't need them filtered through the lens of an ideologue, who teaches not just the wrong ideas, but the wrong subject when studying the classics.
Ironically, we all have the freedom to be Marx's wet dream--a laborer by day, who comes home to study the classics and advance humanity in his spare time--because of the very system he sought to tear down: Capitalism. And now, his deviant disciples want to do away with the end he sought to implement the means he desired to achieve it.
I definitely think people should study the classics on their own, and there are plenty of resources to do so. A good teacher of classics will actually help you learn about the context of the author and the work, helping to make more sense of what you are reading, not filtering it through a shit feminist or racial lense. I had a teacher do this with me for Shakespeare, it helped clarify what he was trying to say through his plays.
See, that's the problem. Who cares what Shakespeare was trying to say? Seriously. He was a dude that was good with words. That doesn't make his ideas magically any better than the butcher down the street, or the scrivener up the alley. The only reason anyone ought to study Shakespeare is to find out how to use language to amuse and persuade. Study him for what he's good at.
Anything else is just an ideologue trying to inject their opinion into the mouth of a respected man.
More importantly, they can explore it themselves! We don't need some professor giving out lessons on Shakespeare's attitudes toward feminism, or speculating on whether or not Chaucer's Miller was a commentary on toxic masculinity. The books, themselves, and the resources to understand them, are all available for free right now! You don't need them filtered through the lens of an ideologue, who teaches not just the wrong ideas, but the wrong subject when studying the classics.
Ironically, we all have the freedom to be Marx's wet dream--a laborer by day, who comes home to study the classics and advance humanity in his spare time--because of the very system he sought to tear down: Capitalism. And now, his deviant disciples want to do away with the end he sought to implement the means he desired to achieve it.
I definitely think people should study the classics on their own, and there are plenty of resources to do so. A good teacher of classics will actually help you learn about the context of the author and the work, helping to make more sense of what you are reading, not filtering it through a shit feminist or racial lense. I had a teacher do this with me for Shakespeare, it helped clarify what he was trying to say through his plays.
Hillsdale.edu has free online lessons in the classics, the Constitution, American history, world history, and many others. Highly recommend.
See, that's the problem. Who cares what Shakespeare was trying to say? Seriously. He was a dude that was good with words. That doesn't make his ideas magically any better than the butcher down the street, or the scrivener up the alley. The only reason anyone ought to study Shakespeare is to find out how to use language to amuse and persuade. Study him for what he's good at.
Anything else is just an ideologue trying to inject their opinion into the mouth of a respected man.
Youtube videos plus reading the book = no need for libtard professors