Young men and women read great books, driving them to contemplate the human condition. The college years were about students transforming themselves into reflective adults, and literature offered the passageway. Books instigated arguments over morality and iniquity. “Romeo and Juliet” provided students with pick-up lines. “Gulliver’s Travels” and “Pride and Prejudice” provoked debates over the proprieties of human social interactions.
Before international relations, anthropology, psychology and political science became trendy subjects, literature was understood as a repository of knowledge.No longer, it seems. Literature is not high on the list of majors, nor is it a requirement for those studying hard science. Pre-med, engineering, architecture, computer science and business majors can often graduate from college without taking a single literature class.
Is literature not functional enough for modern-day students because it lacks empirical facts?“Can anyone think that there is more understanding to be gained about the human heart from Freud than from Shakespeare?” asks Myron Magnet in an essay in City Journal. “Can anyone think that the studies of Margaret Mead or Alfred Kinsey tell us anything nearly as true as Ovid or Turgenev?”
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