/lit/ - Literature

>>15482182
Force an AP Literature/IB English/A-Level curriculum, with several required readings, discussions, and tons, and I mean TONS of analysis and essays.
It may feel as being a hard-ass, but I always felt the quantity of content and the level of evaluation in STEM and even other humanities classes was much much higher than in English. In other words, if you took Chemistry, you learned as much Chemistry as it is necessary to have an overview of the subject and to decide if you like it or not and if you want to delve even more in the topics.
Instead, currently in the US, when you take English you do a great amount of useless projects (presentations, etc), learn an over-simplified part of history (just enough to understand the context of some authors, and only go over the aspect of literary analysis very briefly.

I think it is ridiculous that your typical English/English Honors class in the US has almost nothing in similar to the typical first-year literary courses in college. And it kind of deceives a lot of people; personally I disliked English as I spent hours doing projects or filling charts instead of doing actual essays or having discussions. I loved getting to analyze a book in depth, and I'm pretty sure that even though most people would find it generally boring, if English was taught more rigorously, it would attract more people than it does today.

Also, introduce Philosophy in schools. Fuck, why in the US are there no Intro to Philosophy courses in High School? At least as an elective for the sake of God.