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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the classics question, there is more to being educated that just reading books a bunch of old dead white men wrote.[/quote]
The problem is, they did write some pretty good books. And reading books that may not be that great, but written by non white non dead non men, doesn’t mean better education
They will grow up having never read the classics 
Which in my book means not really educated 
- DP[/quote]

What are "the classics" though? Who decides? When and why do books stop being "classics"? When and why do they start? [/quote]

My theory is that they withstand the test of time. The test of educated people with good, developed literary taste. Even if these people are- the horror!- white men
[b]Leo Tolstoy wrote Anna Karenina which is not about the white men problems at all[/b]
It is still relevant despite how much has changed, including the fact it didn’t even happen in America
It’s written really well, withstands the test of time and place, you have your classics 
[/quote]

Yeah it is.

I have read a lot of "classics". I tried to read Anna Karenina. You can keep it. In fact, you can keep all of Tolstoy.[/quote]

Um, it’s about a woman who is stigmatized and has her child taken from her because she dared to leave her husband. Maybe a little bit of reading comprehension skills wouldn’t hurt
Also YOU are definitely not someone who decides which books are classics
It’s fine to say you don’t like it - but it doesn’t make it any worse [/quote]

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