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Push to replace Shakespeare, Chaucer and Emerson in high schools with Neo-Marxist Chicano and African novels. (lifehacker.com)
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– marrkus_of_mrkopalj 1 point ago +1 / -0

I enjoyed reading Shakespeare. I'm not as literary as I would like to be but I wish my high school has introduced Dostoyevsky to me when I was a young man.

Schools don't teach kids how to think and as a result much of the older books are lost on children.

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