The Antithesis and Teaching Literature (1)

Miss Lubbers is a member of First Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. American literature is one of the required courses for students who graduate from high school. This was true when I taught literature at Covenant Christian High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan in the late 1960s and the 1970s, and it is true today. One of the main reasons that schools teach American literature is that citizens of the USA, who ought to know the history of their country, should also study the...