Popular Culture Review Vol. 2, No. 2, July 1991 | Page 29

The Canon and the Comics 21 The point, I hope, is a simply one. Education is a major item in the budget of every state. It is a major item in the federal budget. It takes up a major portion of local tax revenue, and heaven knows how much is spent on education in the private sector. If, at the end of a sixteen-year process involving who knows how much money per student, we turn out college graduates who cannot fully comprehend and appreciate the comic pages of the daily newspapers, then we have not been very good stewards of the public treasury. University of North Texas G.L. Seligmann