Missing Blake or Yeats is optional. Those who seek will find.

But I am convinced there is richness of beauty, in it and that anyone who has not walked among that richness is missing something. This does not reflect on them. People who haven't seen the Grand Canyon are missing a certain beauty as well. Yet their lives may be full of other kinds.

On the other hand, there is lots of richness and beauty I haven't had time to experience yet,

I have only scratched the surface of Sufi poetry and it amazes me.

But an education that did not make Shakespeare, Yeats and Blake available and somehow communicate the influence these voices have had is to my mind missing something important.

So would an education that never made Omar Khayam available.

And it is very much the work of educators to light a fire about these things. And that includes parents.

IMHO.

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