/lit/ - Literature

>>20532299
pic related

>>20458260
One should do both. A sound mind housed in a sound body. But sports just aren't as good as intellectual pursuits.

>>19369640
>Have you ever seen pedagogic responses like...
Yes I've seen the first many times. The second as well even, though I've never seen it's successful completion. Oh I guess I've seen some protonmail address exchanges so maybe it happened. I have been a part of, or read arguments here then gone in to read the referenced materials and returned to stay a new thread on my readings, probably not with the same anons but maybe. And likely others do the same. You get out of it what you put in.

>>18983556
You might like this as well then.

>>18953049
Hatchet is good. "Half Magic" might be good, or maybe kids have no taste.

>>17539266
>quadrivium
Now you're getting into /sci/ territory there.
However, regarding what you said about
>we would basically have a full curricula that you could just follow that would replace and be a lot better than the typical four year liberal arts college education, which is pretty much a waste of time and money.
It is always a good idea to simply add pic related as St John's is essentially what you're saying, but with tuition paying for the tutoring of experts in the field.

Anyone who thinks the opinions of critics are useless, that academia isn't hugely important, that the classics aren't objectively superior to genre fiction, and that genre fiction itself isn't childish and immature, can fuck off to r/books or r/writing. Absolutely disgusting and I cannot believe what I'm reading on this board of all places.

>>16934943
don't read the communist manifesto, its for pseud, follow pic related instead

So if i read and study everything in pic related for 2 years, id be smarter than 99.9% of the population?

>>15569188

Surely /lit/ is smart enough to handle a freshman year course..

>>14307543

https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list