Beware The Loss Of Literature

“The complexity of texts students are being assigned to read has declined by about three grade levels over the past 100 years...(b)y reducing literary study, Common Core decreases students’ opportunity to develop the analytical thinking once developed in just an elite group by the vocabulary, structure, style, ambiguity, point of view, figurative language, and irony in classic literary texts.”
Nicole Russell
http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/17/beware-the-loss-of-literature/

Bihar Archives to soon publish docs, lit banned by British Raj

"Rare documents and images, including a graphic depiction of the hanging of Bhagat Singh and his two aides Rajguru and Sukhdev, which were banned during the colonial era, are now being published in three huge volumes. "

"...the work titled 'Proscribed Documents in the Records of the Bihar State Archives – Vol I, Vol II and Vol III', with focus on the period 1915-1947, is currently "in press" and would be out by March end."

http://www.hindustantimes.com/patna/bihar-archives-to-soon-publish-docs-lit-banned-by-british-raj/article1-1324316.aspx

The Inner Ear

  "My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. The creative person is, in any case, continually working at it. His mind is shuffling his information at all times, even when he is not conscious of it."

  "The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad."

  "Probably more inhibiting than anything else is a feeling of responsibility. The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren't paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all. The great ideas came as side issues."

Isaac Asimov, "On Creativity", MIT Technology Review, vol. 118, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2015  (previously unpublished)

Poster

http://rebloggy.com/post/art-artists-1950s-history-propaganda-cold-war-art-history-american-history-red-s/29308712334