/lit/ - Literature

>>14742168
Not OP, but a thought in this current has crossed my mind already. Based on increases in how much raw information is easily available and how much money is spent per student, it would be a very simple and easy thing for every American school child to become a genius by Renaissance standards.
There's no reason why everyone K-12 couldn't become fluent in Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Science, world history, ancient and modern Philosophy, and have total knowledge the works of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe, Blake, the Bible, become an expert at some classical instrument of their choosing, and reach the peak of physical fitness
Instead, every new innovation to schooling makes it worse. Most kids in my high school classes could barely sound out words and read at a rate of two words per minute. They got rid of logical ways of teaching math and came up with these new convoluted methods that you'll never use. At my high school there was one philosophy class you could take as an elective. When learning about Rome in my social studies class, you wanna know what Roman literature we read? Was it Ovid? Was it Virgil? Was it Cicero? Was it Julius Caesar? NOPE! WE READ THE FUCKING HUNGER GAMES BECAUSE IT WAS A "MODERN PARALLEL TO THE GLADIATOR MATCHES!" A FUCKING YOUNG ADULT NOVEL SET IN A FICTIONAL DYSTOPIA THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ROME WHATSOEVER! I'M STILL MAD ABOUT IT
That was the only time in my life where all my teachers were free and I could devote at least eight hours a day to education, and it was basically wasted. I know some smart people who hated school, I know some dumb people who hated school, I've never met a smart person who enjoyed school