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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The books they read at Deal are not particularly advanced.  And for some reason all the books are about racism or minority groups being oppressed.  Like every single book.  [/quote]

The kids at Deal are the ones that need to read these types of books. They’ll have plenty of time in high school and college to read the classics (that will have no major impact on the way they live the lives).[/quote]

+1[/quote]

Who needs to how to think, anyway?[/quote]

You can learn to think about many kinds of books. I say this as someone who has a degree in literature and a degree in education. If the only literature you can have thoughts about are the classics, then I would suggest you have a marginal understanding of literature in general.[/quote]

Who said “only?” 
Anyway, your degrees in literature and education make any further discussion moot.
Down with the classics and carry on![/quote]

The implicit argument that was made was that these children will not learn to think by reading books about racism or oppression and that instead they would learn more from reading the "classics." I agree the training in interpretation could be improved, but you can usefully explicate basically any text. QED.[/quote]

A facetious rejoinder to an asinine statement argued no such thing. “When you assume…” and all that.[/quote]

what do you think they wer saying?[/quote]

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