Clippings: New efforts bring risks and lessons

Posted on January 13, 2011 |

• Opinion
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By J.P. Allen

Before this December, my mother knew very little about Shakespeare — and almost certainly not enough to teach Shakespeare.

She was forced to confront the Bard by the will of a higher power. The faculty at Centre College, in my hometown of Danville, Ky., had decided it was her turn to teach Humanities 101, a year-long whirlwind introduction to the Western literary and cultural canon.

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