“Too many children are only too happy to lose themselves in [Twilight author] Stephenie Meyer. There is a Great Tradition of English Literature, a Canon of transcendent works, & Breaking Dawn is not part of it,” said the Conservative MP.
In part of what he called a “culture of low expectations” in English schools, Gove also mentioned during a speech to teachers at Brighton College that using Mr Men characters as an example and asking pupils during history lessons to compare them with figures from Nazi Germany, like Hitler and Goering, was “reducing the history of Germany’s darkest years to a falling out between Mr Tickle and Mr Topsy-Turvy.”
Gove also suggested that parents would prefer to see their child learning computer coding over playing repetitive rounds of the popular Angry Birds game.
Read the full speech at politics.co.uk
