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But why have a list at all? The original proposal from the Government’s curriculum advisers was simply that teachers should pick works written before, during and after the 20th century. That made sense. A canon should change all the time. Some old books should disappear to make way for new ones. What matters is that pupils sample a selection of good books, old and new. Teachers don’t need politicians to tell them that.
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