A worthwhile destination

Wittingshire on teaching literature:

I'm fortunate. I don't have to make a living in the world for which I trained. I teach only as often as is fun, and without regard for tenure requirements. What of others who think as I do, but who do teach full time?

They are unsung heroes, on the front lines of a battle against relativism and nihilism. They profess the truth. They insist that aesthetic principles are more than mere personal tastes, often committing professional suicide through an unfashionable attachment to the oft-maligned canon. Or they get relegated to lower-level courses, where they try to teach incoming students to recognize good literature--and this is excruciatingly difficult for the student whose tastes have been formed by one poor fiction after another, and who has been assured all his life that his opinion on anything is as valid as anyone's.

One of the many reasons why we visit Wittingshire.