... educational landscape in the twentieth century, and even such literary masterpieces as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice have not escaped the censor's wrath for their allegedly racist views. Since the beginning of the century, public schools have felt increase pressures within their communities to maintain a cautious vigil over the materials used in teaching children. For one thing, more literature ... sexual problems in society (Steele 336). Although young children "are not interested in sexual material," notes the University of North Carolina's psy...

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... Books held many important works by Italian humanists including Erasmus, known for his criticism of the church and thought to many as the most respected northern humanist of the 16th century. But even with all these things to overcome, Burke notes, "humanism did continue to appear in new books and to be taught in grammar schools from Rome to Geneva"(18). The Jesuit ... schools also embraced the importance of the classics in their curriculum. "They recognized that humanism had ... (Netherlands, Switzerland), into France, Germany, and the Iberian Peninsula. And finally over into England, ...

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