Re: THEORY: Hebrew revival (was: THEORY: Irish, and language death)

--- Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> wrote:
>     (The Bible, in the original Hebrew, is used in
> the public,  _nonreligious_ , elementary schools
> here in Israel, as a history text and as a
> literature text.
> I don't recall, in my own schooldays in America,
> tackling Shakespeare until high school!)
>
>
> Dan Sulani
While in America, the bastion of religious freedom,
some school districts will try to expel you for
bringing a Bible on school grounds.  And I believe
you're right about Shakespeare not being touched till
high school in the public schools, but it wasn't
always so.  When I was in fith grade we started
homeschooling.  My reader already had Shakespeare as
did my sister's third grade reader.  Of course they
were only short excerpts, but they were *not*
simplified or teranslated into "modern".

Adam

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