Why should Shakespeare be taught in school? Not everyone likes Shakespeare or understands the humor in it. Shakespeare is not the greatest English writer. There is no greatest writer. He is just a normal person that lived over four hundred years ago. His stories might also not be easy to follow depending on the person, especially if you’re reading the book in old English. No one should be forced to read a book they do not like or understand, and if they are, it might affect their grade. They would fall behind everyone else simply because it is a book they do not like or understand. There would be no point in teaching it. People can very well live without Shakespeare, and it makes no sense to raise one person’s work above the rest. Shakespeare …show more content…
In her article titled, “Why It Is Ridiculous Not to Teach Shakespeare in School”, she states that “Shakespeare is more than just a ‘long dead British guy,’ and I believe that he has much to teach us…”. She is unlike Dana Dusbiber in which she believes that Shakespeare is still significant to modern life, and that we can learn a lot from him. Although it is true we may learn from Shakespeare’s works, we can only learn about how life was for the English back then. The fact still remains that his works are not easy for everyone to understand, and people can easily live without them. There are plenty of other people’s writings we can learn from if we simply look for them and not stick with one person who wrote plays never meant to be turned into books or taught in schools. As Dusbiber states, “Shakespeare lived in a pretty small world”. He did not have the liberties of using the internet to learn about the rest of the world like we have now. He can not teach us about how things are now if he had never lived in this century. He does not know what had happened after his lifetime, or how things have changed to become more