Why Aren't We Teaching Cinema in Schools?
India Ross
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Posted 12.05.2013
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UK Universities & Education
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Film,
Fifty Shades of Grey,
Secondary Schools,
Gcses,
Cinema,
Fellini,
Literature,
Teenagers,
A Kestrel for a Knave,
Flaubert,
Kes,
UK Universities & Education News
We must ask ourselves what we are trying to achieve by educating in the arts. Are we growing recital-bots, who store Western culture's greatest hits on some internal Dictaphone, to be replayed on request at interviews and after-dinner appearances? Probably. But no culture swot is complete without a Fellini to his Flaubert. He just doesn't know it yet.
