To Be or Not to Be Educated

Our older son is home from college—his first year of art
school, studying animation—and at the dinner table, while listening to us grill
his little brother about his English class’ coverage of “Romeo and Juliet,” he
asked this little gem of a question:



“Why does everyone have to read Shakespeare in school,
anyway?”



This is a young man who is an avid reader and a vacuum
cleaner of a