Writer Adam Gopnik, in a recent piece for The New Yorker magazine, tackled the question, “Why teach English?”
College graduation statistics have been showing a steady decrease in English majors in recent years, and Gopnik said he fears the major is vanishing from American colleges and universities just as the Latin prerequisite vanished before it.
In response to this decline, he said people have been clamoring to make their case to save the study, with most defenses falling into two categories: One that argues English majors make better people and the second that they make for better societies.
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