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The Rise of Rhetoric
Rhetoric as the pinnacle of the curriculum is having its last gasp really, says Andrew Keen. It becomes in precisely the example that you've used increasingly seen as a means by which it becomes an instrument of control for certain figures. Lord McCauley's minute on India where he sets up educational system for India and thinks what can we teach the Indians our fundamental English values. And he settles on Shakespeare,. I mean Shakespeare becomes what the classics had been for England but generally people, rhetoric's coming in for a lot of bashing - forced from science.