Ain't it Cool?

[joeallonby]

It should not be necessary to make great literature cool in order to teach
it to young people.

Great literature is already cool.

Sometimes young people are not ready for great literature and should be
allowed to come to it in their own good time.

This reminds me of some of my lesser music teachers who tried to force feed
Baroque music to kids by comparing it to pop music for which they feigned
enthusiasm though they obviously despised it. The results were often
hilarious. "Does this idiot really think that we actually like Billy Fucking
Joel when we listen to the Velvet Underground and X?"

Condescending to the tastes of youth in order to enlighten them is often
embarrassing at best and disastrous at worst.