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I'll preface this by stating I'm speaking for schools within the US.
I suspect we would find we would get better results if teachers were given freedom to cater reading material to the students they had, rather than the one-size-fits-all approach that's being forced upon them. Students from with the same state will not get the same experience reading the same books, much less than same country. I wont pretend that the teachers could reach every child they taught and foster a love of reading, but I have to believe that presenting material the children can relate to would be more likely to kindle that love, rather than forcing the classics upon them and telling them 'this is good, you should like it'. This should be done in grade school, so that when the students reach high school and college they will be more likely to embrace the classics, or at least be able to acknowledge the merit of reading them.
I don't think it's the job of English teachers to instill a love of reading, but I do think it's their job to help grow the love of reading by showing students what they can get from reading. English, and reading, are not the same as mathematics, though both are languages with rules (English breaks them often though), math is a science, English and reading are very clearly not. However I would still say it's the job of a math teacher to show students that math isn't something to be feared or hated. This is, again, at a young age, by high school and college the shift toward teaching more advanced ideas in all of these courses should have been made.
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