Literature and Males

I got to speak to a group of esteemed old boys from a NZ school today.

My starting point was a comment made by a Head of English at a boys school I was teaching at when she stated that the comparatively poor English results, compared to Science and Math were because; ” … they were boys”.

This was a part of my counter evidence:

Top 30 Books of BBC Readers

1. The LOTR, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Predudic, J Austen
3. His Dark Materials,...