Flannery O’Connor: Fiction is a Subject w/ a History—It Should be Taught That Way
“The high school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present…And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.” — Flannery O’Connor
Read the whole essay here.
