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I think a lot of us let our own love of reading blind us to the fact that we're special-snowflaking how we believe educational institutions should be teaching literature to youth just a bit.
It's natural to do so, but it's not entirely rational, either.
To say, "Literature is different" is not a sufficient reason to explain why its teaching should have the added onus of needing to inspire a love of reading. Not when math class is not put to the fire to inspire more people to love balancing a checking account. Nor P.E. to inspire more people to love sports.
Teachers inspire young minds (regardless of the curriculum). And there's nothing stopping a literature teacher from suggesting outside reading to children. Which in my opinion, would do far greater good than trying to use more entertaining, modern books (that I enjoy the heck out of, mind you) to teach literature with. They'd still hate the tests they had to take on those newer books anyway.
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