“I think that’s to the detriment . . . I just don’t want the printed page to get swept away by that,” Stoppard was quoted as saying in several newspaper reports.
He also said that children are living “in a world of technology” where the “moving image” took precedence over “the printed page”, leading to the study of the sciences being preferred over the humanities.
The playwright expressed “enormous concern” at the humanities being neglected despite children having access to better curriculum than ever before.
“I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that even if it can’t be quantitatively measured as other subjects, it’s as fundamental to all education,” he said.
Stoppard was speaking ahead of a speech to an education charity established by the Prince of Wales -- the Prince’s Teaching Institute.
The institute was set up to help teaching staff rediscover the traditional subjects of English, history, geography, and other humanities.
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