Willie the Shake

"Earning a bachelor's degree in English without the study of Shakespeare 'is tantamount to fraud,' says Anne Neal, president of the group."

The group in question is the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, "a Washington-based group that promotes academic quality." It would seem from this article that their idea of academic quality is sound. Other than this story, however, I do not know them from Adams, as a 419 scammer once told me ("Who in blazes is Adams?" was my reply then).

I have always taken a dim view of Harvard, dimmer than any other East Coast college. However, according to this study, Harvard is the only of the Ivy League schools to require its English majors to take a course in Shakespeare.

When pointing out the error of Biblephobic liberals, I have often used the example of someone claiming to be a Middle Eastern studies scholar and not having ever read the Koran. Similarly, how can one claim to be educated in the West without intimate familiarity of the Bible?

Or of English literature without at least a course worth of Shakespeare?

Oh well, I am sure they are making up for it in their Rap poetry studies.