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If a person wanted to be well educated, what subjects would he learn? What books would he read? Which parts of history will he familiarize himself with?

>> No.20883871

Grammar, dialectics, rhetoric.

>> No.20883941

>>20883856
Mathematics. Linguistics. Good Fiction. Classical Antiquity.

>> No.20883945

>>20883856
Physics

>> No.20884097

>>20883856
he would start with The Greeks.

>> No.20884876

>>20883871
>>20883941
>>20883945
>>20884097
>t. retards

>> No.20886028

>>20883856
Just go back to school. I'm trying to sometime.

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>>20883856

Start here

>> No.20886328

>>20883856
Just read what you like, what you're drawn to. Follow your instincts.

>> No.20886344

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

>> No.20886408
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>>20883856
Start with the Trivium.

>> No.20886670

>>20886408
This looks really good, so you know if there is a similar chart for the Quadrivium?

>> No.20886703

>>20886670
The Trivium was the first post fyi >>20883871

>> No.20886750

If we're Trivium posting see pic rel.

The book isn't necessarily about Thomas Nashe. It started about him but McLuhan realized the larger place of the Trivium in relation to intellectual battles since antiquity and Nashe was used to illuminate that.

As always, know your Greeks, Romans, and the Middle Ages.

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>>20886750
forgot pic

>> No.20887587

Classics, as well as any great works of fiction. Historical literacy is important, but if made a chore, will disengage you: read only what you are interested in, and over time, your horizons will expand. Avoid philosophy on the whole - it is unintuitive, and unnatural.

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>>20886408
Here's a chart made by an anon in a self-help thread a couple days ago

>> No.20887609 [DELETED] 

know how banking, equity markets, and bond markets work. well educated people understand finance. uneducated people believe weird conspiracies from marxists or alt-right wingnuts.

>> No.20889032

They don't want you to learn astrology and music because at their core they are degenerate modernists who should be hung by their testicles off of a lamppost.

>> No.20889054

>>20889032
Why astrology and music specifically?
t. Virgo Sun and Aries Moon.

>> No.20889558

bump

>> No.20889578

>>20883856
OP painting is looking at your gendered with exasperation.
He or she will gain much by ditching the school curriculums and gaining whatever knowledge they want throughout life. Renaissance men were born in such ways

>> No.20889593

>>20889032
>>20889054
Woman moment

>> No.20890834

>>20883856
carpentry for dummies and the osha website and then get a job

>> No.20890850

>>20890834
Cringe

>> No.20890894

>>20890850
you are not an academic. you are a neet

>> No.20891232

>>20890894
Not an argument.

>> No.20891271

if you want an education you're going to want to read literature from pre history to now, learn algebra, trig, and calculus, and have a basic understanding of physics chemistry and biology. aka k-12 public school

>> No.20892352

>>20883856
>What books would he read?
He would go to college.