Reminds me of an article I read a while back: We're Teaching Books That Don't Stack Up (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082202398_pf.html)

Basically, students are being told they suck for not being interested in books whose intended audience are middle-aged women, or 20-something salarymen, etc..