So, years ago, I began an email list entitled "A Point to Ponder". It was a weekly email that was sent out to many people about things I thought about throughout the week. Sometimes, it had a distinctly Jewish theme, others a philosophical one. At other times, it was something a teacher mentioned in class and I could not quite get out of my head. Despite the fact that I stopped writing these points about four years ago, I have decided to start again. Now, dear readers, whomever you may be, I cannot guarantee that I will post weekly as I did then but I do know that I will attempt to. (I had more time back in High School.)
Now, to start...
Education, where I live, is currently a mess. I mean, forget what politicians have done to our teachers in the last, oh, lets say two decades, but rather, go through some of my own qualms about it.
So, tonight, I am helping my brother with some homework. Basically, I am doing some editing for him. Now, usually, it is a matter of a copy edit but tonight, he seems to have sent me something written in about 30 minutes which was not looked over previously. No problem. Don't care. I will make this English!... or die trying. This may very well be a "die trying" one.
The topic of this piece is Paradise Lost. Good piece of literature albeit not my cup of tea but given that this is a politics and human rights course, I have yet to find out exactly how this is relevant... although he makes a few very good points. Somehow, he is supposed to link how Milton uses Paradise Lost to show how politics and human rights were portrayed and used in the 15th Century in England. In a nutshell, not well.
Now, as there are at least a few teachers who may be reading this, including a few of my own, I do not want to disparage this teacher too much but of all the literature that came out of Tudor or Elizabethan England, could they not find another that might have been a bit better suited for this topic?
I don't know but this is my point to ponder tonight... I will let you know if I come up with an answer.
