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Março 2, 2008

Adolescentes judeus recusam-se estudar Shakespeare no Reino Unido

Arquivado como: Educação, Internacional, Livros, Religião — Carlos Guimarães Pinto @ 11:39 am

Jewish pupils boycott exam in Shylock protest

Nine students at the single-sex Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School in Hackney, east London, took their stance as part of a protest against the portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.

As a result, they were stripped of their marks for the English national curriculum test for 14-year-olds – and their school plummeted from top of the league tables to 274th.

The girls, supported by their parents, refused to answer any questions on Shakespeare or even write their names on the top of the paper, even though the play they were studying was The Tempest – not The Merchant of Venice

3 Comentários »

  1. O que resulta é copiado. Ainda haveremos de ver budistas a fazer atentados suicidas.

    Comentário por lucklucky — Março 2, 2008 @ 1:13 pm

  2. I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge! If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

    Comentário por JoãoMiranda — Março 2, 2008 @ 2:22 pm

  3. O problema destas ’seitas’é que lêem um livro apenas!
    Se abrissem os outros eram capazes de ter ideias heréticas.
    Não foi à toa que o primeiro que traduziu a biblia do latim para inglês tenha sido queimado.
    A livre interpretação dá origem a dúvidas, que não são bem vindas em nenhuma religião.

    Comentário por Daniel Azevedo — Março 4, 2008 @ 8:02 am

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