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English literature GCSE

Arran Cameron
What does the IET and the engineering community think of the English literature GCSE? Is it relevant or beneficial for engineering or is it (like food tech) something that hardly anybody cares about?


English literature is a near compulsory GCSE in England but is now optional in Wales where it has experienced quite a heavy decline in the number of secondary school students taking it.
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    Arran Cameron:

    In a survey of parents, asking what the most useless and pointless secondary school subject is (not the one that they were worst at or hated the most), English literature was a clear first. Nobody picked English language or ICT.




    Well its very important to get 'gang wise' and slaughter your first saber-tooth as entry to the tribe and then to provide food and clothing by hunting down and killing your woolly mamouth But then that's the choice the human race has to contend with......hunt with the pack or starve in a garret....

    There is definitely a problem with developing enthusiasm in young people to take up the arts. Can the arts tell us anything about life? History and that old chessnut, Classics are better candidates to give us direction but it seems that young people do not desire positive direction but instant access to self gratification and self grandiment.  As soon as the hormones kick in antlers start to grow and the brains drop down the legs, but then that is not such a bad thing as we're producing some fine young performance artists.


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    Arran Cameron:

    In a survey of parents, asking what the most useless and pointless secondary school subject is (not the one that they were worst at or hated the most), English literature was a clear first. Nobody picked English language or ICT.




    Well its very important to get 'gang wise' and slaughter your first saber-tooth as entry to the tribe and then to provide food and clothing by hunting down and killing your woolly mamouth But then that's the choice the human race has to contend with......hunt with the pack or starve in a garret....

    There is definitely a problem with developing enthusiasm in young people to take up the arts. Can the arts tell us anything about life? History and that old chessnut, Classics are better candidates to give us direction but it seems that young people do not desire positive direction but instant access to self gratification and self grandiment.  As soon as the hormones kick in antlers start to grow and the brains drop down the legs, but then that is not such a bad thing as we're producing some fine young performance artists.


    Legh

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