The His Dark Materials author says shift away from these subjects in English baccalaureate threatens an area of ‘incalculable worth’
Philip Pullman has defended the study of the arts, saying that “they’re of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being” and slamming the UK’s government of “philistines and barbarians” for failing to understand this.
As it becomes compulsory from this September for secondary school children to study the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) core subjects of English, maths, science, a language and history or geography, Pullman insisted that arts subjects are also essential to education. “The arts are beyond price, they’re beyond value. They’re of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being,” the author of His Dark Materials told Sky News.
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