Reply #87: In some cases it has relevance, in many others, it does not...

[hughee99]

I'm sure that ALL people are shaped by their personal relationships, whatever they may be, but is there time to discuss the personal relationship of EACH person? I'm sure that all of the people I mentioned in earlier posts were shaped by their relationships, but it doesn't seem relevant to their work product. Should their be a discussion of all of Karl Marx significant relationships so we can better get to know the man, or is the time better spent doing a review of his work and moving on to labor unions, for example? Should a class cover a handful of poets in great depth or survey a larger number of poets and their work? In an ideal world with unlimited time, I'm all for this, but that's not the case in the current school structure.