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Your country in taken over by a dictatorship and you somehow end up as the minister of education. You are given complete control of the all levels of education. What would be some of the mandatory reading for your country's future citizens?

>> No.22575260

Judith Butler

>> No.22575261

Mostly propaganda since getting executed will not help anything and I have no interest in being a martyr.

>> No.22575309

>>22575254
Infinite jest

>> No.22575311

Guns germs and steel

>> No.22575342

>>22575254
I would just not have any mandatory reading. People need to follow what draws them. Those who seek books and knowledge should be allowed to discover them and engage with them on their own terms.

>> No.22575355

>>22575254
The greeks and maybe the romans

>> No.22575363
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22575363

>>22575254
Mass education is a waste, train the great unwashed until a grade 9 or 10 level education, with a heavy emphasis on maths, English grammar and physical education. Turn history into an "island story" style historical narrative that is affirming and easy to follow. Go Henry VIII mode and appropriate every university in the country. Imprison all the social scientists with mandatory life sentences in isolation. Restore the universities as private institutions with new staff, new locations and buildings and most importantly new names.

For the top 20% of students who actually should have some kind of higher education (high school and university) make Arts degrees one year with emphasis on the history of English literature and poetry and a foreign language component, probably a romance language or classical Greek or Latin.

Thank you for reading my autistic power fantasy

>> No.22575388

>>22575363

You forgot to specifically mention science, technology, and industry. But incorporate that, and I will follow you to the ends of the Earth, sir.

>> No.22575408

>>22575342
This

>> No.22575472

Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell

>> No.22575492

>>22575342
Sorry no snowflakes under the new regime

>> No.22575614

>>22575254
Elliot Rodgers Diary

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the Columbiad
Book of Psalms, Proverbs, and Job
All the Kings Men by Robert Warren
Moby Dick
Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven by Saint Innocent of Alaska
A Manual of Political Economy by Erasmus Peshine Smith
History of Monetary Systems by Alexander del Mar
Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
Reclaiming Kalākaua by Tiffany Lani Ing
The Maltese Falcon
Heavy Duty by Mike Mentzer (for Gym class)

>> No.22575667

>>22575254
https://youtu.be/1SQdXYFuO1U?si=RUAG0VEQXOBNoDI_&t=157

>> No.22575814

>>22575254
>mandatory
What if I dont want my people to accept mandatory stuff from the goverment?