> Learning Shakespeare is typically tied to learning how to communicate through reading, writing, and comprehension. IMO, that is much more generally useful tha

> Learning Shakespeare is typically tied to learning how to communicate through reading, writing, and comprehension. IMO, that is much more generally useful than learning anything about a Laplace transform. Learning to do a poor quality imitation of early twentieth century literary criticism is at best a really inefficient way to teach communication through reading, writing and comprehension. Vocational pseudo reasons to teach the humanities are and always have been horse shit, detracting from the pleasures of those who are actually interested, whether as teachers or students.