Our Minister of Education has a narrow view of drama and what she wants young people to appreciate. A culture needs diversity and that means colleges and their teachers must have flexibility to select and teach drama without being locked into any one dramatist or poet or writer.
The word is diversity. A good English teacher will read widely and know many dramatists. If he/she teaches about what they love in drama, there is a fair chance some of the emotion and learning will rub off to their students. As a lover of the Bard and in possession of at least five DVD versions of Hamlet, I feel like him as he contemplates the barrenness of the insight of This Minister .
Truly there is something rotten somewhere in her thinking.