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i was talking about books with my nephews this afternoon and.....

submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to whatever 10 monthsJul 4, 2024 22:49:49 ago (+24/-0)     (whatever)

boy they dont know who charles dickens is or mark twain or jules verne or any of the classics of literature that they made you read as a kid.i mentioned about homer's illyad and odyssey and they shrugged their shoulders at me.

i remember that as a young teen i was aware of the stories of alexander dumas, shakespeare, cervantes saavedra and many others... i wasnt a bookworm or anything but i understood that if you didnt knew the classics that you were stupid

so i ask what the fuck they are teaching to our kids at school. my niece of 10 is reading a book in how to deal with middle school. say what? i asked them if they wanted to try any of the classics and they said that it looked boring and for old people. i kid you not.


these kids would feel lost if they lose their smartphones and PCS :(


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[ - ] yesiknow 10 points 10 monthsJul 4, 2024 23:59:36 ago (+10/-0)

I had the same conversation about family yesterday. Young adults who don not know how do anything or figure out anything at all.

It's a tragedy.

[ - ] SecretHitler 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 10:34:44 ago (+1/-0)

That sounds like a completely different conversation

[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 9 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 01:45:11 ago (+9/-0)

They're also not being taught to change a tire or their oil or do other basic car maintenance, or home maintenance, or to grow food. Basically no actual life skills.

[ - ] Sector2 4 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 02:35:33 ago (+4/-0)

https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m95476105855/?srsltid=AfmBOoq0jmGwXcVemhbIh3sVks_V2a5Z-DLfEDrniRIzNDaPxHk7bNuY4lo

When I was a kid my parents got me a hardbound set of 10 books called The Junior Classics, with different types of literature in each. Probably still great for young kids today.

I read those, the dictionary, and a big set of encyclopedias around 3rd - 5th grade. If you have young kids, get them hardcopy books instead of screens.

[ - ] boekanier 4 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 01:03:39 ago (+5/-1)

yes, they just want to educate them technologically in order to man their system, but beyond that they need to be dumbed down so that they can't even think for themselves. Imagine if they started questioning the system.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 08:47:50 ago (+3/-0)

By reading books you step into the minds of characters and your brain follows their thoughts patterns building your own thought patterns.

The classics help Brian feel and take on the thought patterns of western culture.

They are so important.

[ - ] texasblood 4 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 00:42:19 ago (+5/-1)

Can you blame them?
Darwin was an idiot too

[ - ] 4thTurning 2 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 00:57:01 ago (+5/-3)

Darwin was proven correct. You are de-volving.

[ - ] doginventer 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 07:30:33 ago (+3/-0)

Top Scientist: The Public Doesn't Realize It's All Fake - Dr James Tour [37.59]
https://odysee.com/@TheSearch4Truth:8/7152875945940222560:0

How the Origin of Life Points to the Existence of God - Cold-Case Christianity - J. Warner & Jimmy Wallace [14.38]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNDa9DO36w

Eugenie Scott Refuted on Abduction and Natural Causes; Is Evolution a Religion? - SouthernIsraelite [22.47]
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[ - ] NeverHappened 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 08:19:04 ago (+1/-0)

No

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 4 points 10 monthsJul 4, 2024 23:52:32 ago (+4/-0)

In my teens in the 70s I learned who those people were. I actually read a few of them, and I caught up and read other books by them in the 80s. Maybe I was exceptional, and I hope I wasn't, but I've found very few young people these days who have even heard of Dickens, let along read something by him, even "A Christmas Carol", his easiest and most accessible book. Such a pity because it's beautiful and it brings tears to my eyes when I read it, which I do about once a year. I read Hamlet in my teens and it remains my favorite play, head and shoulders above all others, because it's brilliant.

Youth today literally don't know what they've been deprived of.

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz [op] 5 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 01:12:28 ago (+5/-0)

yeah books do develop your intellect because you have to think and visualize whats going on. heck even as an young adult i used to save some books that the library didnt want anymore. i had my own little library that unfortunately went to shit because the books from the library got in bad shape due to humidity and stuff.

[ - ] Osmanthus 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 03:05:31 ago (+3/-0)

Only now as you read this comment do you realize that the "classics" you read as a youth were no different than the crap they teach kids today: useless claptrap that does nothing but pin you to an in-group.
Yes, you were played as a teen/young adult and the kids today are played.

You want to read Cervantes for entertainment, fine. You want to imagine there is some sort of higher level knowledge in there, well, no, its just a fad.

[ - ] Sleazy 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 03:52:33 ago (+3/-0)

yep, exactly. Those books that they forced you to consume and discuss were nothing more than subversive propaganda designed to instill the slave mentality, and by gosh, it worked!

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 13:38:06 ago (+3/-0)

I was required to read Animal Farm in ninth grade, and The Hobbit in tenth grade. I wouldn't consider either of those books to be subversive.

[ - ] Sleazy 0 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 15:36:09 ago (+0/-0)

I never read either of those, they made me read Catcher in the Rye and Great Gatsby

[ - ] NoRefunds 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 02:51:07 ago (+3/-0)

Ok yea but those books sucked ass anyway. The only ones worth reading were bradbury and Orwell.

[ - ] 4thTurning 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 00:56:28 ago (+3/-0)

Dumas was a nigger implanted into Europe.

[ - ] boekanier 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 01:05:57 ago (+3/-0)

a brilliant 'nigger'

[ - ] 4thTurning 2 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 01:39:27 ago (+2/-0)

Three musketeers is gay low IQ garbage.

Brilliance is Dickens or Hemingway.

The thoughts of a fucking man.

[ - ] Cantaloupe 3 points 10 monthsJul 4, 2024 23:03:15 ago (+3/-0)

School teaches nothing, the parents have to teach.

She could read

Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a series of fantasy novels written by American author Rick Riordan.

Those are fun, and then they might be interested in better books.

This series too. The Ranger’s Apprentice is a series of novels written by John Flanagan

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz [op] 5 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 00:46:02 ago (+5/-0)

School teaches nothing, the parents have to teach.

plot twist, their mom which is my sister is a teacher lawl

[ - ] GetFuckedCunt 4 points 10 monthsJul 4, 2024 23:48:34 ago (+4/-0)

The entire point of schooling is not to teach but to indoctrinate.

They dont want little jimmy to understand a math problem they want him to regurgitate the math equation using their methodology until it is imprinted in little jimmys mind. They dont want kids to ask questions, that slows down indoctrination. They want kids to shut up and copy what the teacher is writing on the board.

Even before the current woke generation schooling was always designed to create submissive 9 to 5 wage slaves.

[ - ] Cantaloupe 2 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 01:29:41 ago (+2/-0)*

The methodology now is retarded.

Look how fucking retarded this is
https://youtu.be/9B-tj4muHHg

Singapore does the best in math, they learn one fast way.

So what what people do is teach their kids actual math rather than common core, the Singapore techniques work too

[ - ] watts2db 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 03:45:51 ago (+3/-0)

“comment are turned off”. how can her students ask questions?

[ - ] GetFuckedCunt 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 03:54:57 ago (+3/-0)

I couldn't make it through that entire video. What the actual fuck. It is purposely designed to confuse children, probably so the average nigger can keep up.

[ - ] Cantaloupe 0 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 22:38:21 ago (+0/-0)

The Jewish designer claimed it was to stop white privilege.

They thought everyone would fail

What happens though is parents teach kids the correct way, and the retarded way. And black kids have even less of an idea of how to do math. So it just increased the divide.

[ - ] Trope 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 09:06:55 ago (+1/-0)

Man, that Percy Jackson movie sucks ass. Seen most of it twice.

[ - ] NeverHappened 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 11:10:08 ago (+1/-0)

We have enjoyed reading Riordan's work for the most part. It is generally well written and engaging but the continuation of Percy Jackson in the Trials of Apollo series has one of the characters as a fag. The Magnus Chase was our least favorite because of the muslim girl-boss character and a gender-fluid freak. My kids have a good grasp on reality and we discuss things often with them so I do not completely ban them from gay shit.
Another series we enjoyed more than Percy was Fablehaven by Brandon Mull.
I am going to have to get The Ranger's Apprentice; I keep hearing great things about it.

[ - ] Peleg 2 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 07:11:03 ago (+2/-0)

But at the same time they just Know for a Fact that they are somehow more intelligent than Anyone over 30. That one piece of information accounts for the only wrinkle in their brain!

[ - ] fritz_maurentod 2 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 06:01:50 ago (+2/-0)

Newer generations are good for nothing. They live on drugs, porn and computer games. Dysgenics ist real. We'll reach full idiocracy much sooner than expected.

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 18:55:33 ago (+1/-0)*

I appreciate OP for this post. It made me thing for a day about what I read before I was 20. This is a list of what I can remember reading then. I loved reading, and it was a shame I knew so few people who enjoyed it as much as I did, and still do. It greatly enriched my life.

Dickens
Great Expectations (abridged)
A Christmas Carol

Twain
Tom Sawyer

Carroll
Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass

Cervantes
Don Quixote (abridged)

Defoe
Robinson Crusoe

Poe
Most of his poetry, some short stories (esp. The Goldbug)

Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
Many other of his novels

Robert E. Howard
Conan the Barbarian books

Various
Dozens of Doc Savage novels
A LOT of different science fiction books by various authors
The Bible

Tolkien
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings

Shakespeare
Hamlet

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz [op] 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 20:03:21 ago (+1/-0)

that's a nice list to have a private small library in the house to read from. man i miss the books, i also had a compendium of worldwide legends from russia, egypt, latin amerrica, asia but again the books were already old and the humidity destroyed it pages.

i have a bible that is going thru the same process because of the humidity. might have to replace it soon.

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 2 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 01:39:52 ago (+2/-0)

I DONT WANT TO SEE NO HOMOS ILLIAD OR ANY OTHER PART OF THAT NIGGUH

[ - ] Peleg 2 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 07:23:34 ago (+2/-0)

You Will Suck Homer's Iliad and you will Like It Bigot!

[ - ] DestroyerofSquirrels 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 16:06:32 ago (+1/-0)*

Tbf at 10 I had very little interest in that stuff as well(I did indeed like reading though) but when I got to my teens it definitely became much more interesting. They barely teach any history or literature in elementary school nowadays. Hell even middle schools and high schools only teach us shit about the fertile crescent(fucking jews) history and literature are things to pursue on your own nowadays. Next time you have them in a car with you start an audio book of one of them writers and watch as they suddenly take an interest.

[ - ] SecretHitler 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 10:37:27 ago (+1/-0)

So did you make them understand reasons why they would be happy about reading them? Reasons that resonated with them and not you? And offer one that you knew they might really like that would surprise them?

Or did you just act like a boomer about it and reinforce the idea that old people are out of touch?

[ - ] Sleazy 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 03:49:13 ago (+1/-0)

children are naturally dazzled by the technology of the day, what you need to do is introduce them to the literature you would like them to consume through those means

[ - ] BlueEyedAngloMasterRaceGod 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 02:21:25 ago (+2/-1)*

tbf they are quite boring. i'm 34 and learned none of that at school, just some shakespeare in the last 2 years. i remember doing some book study on a random fiction book in grade 6, and another book study in my 2nd last year about a muslim girl in sydney (lol). it's been like this for a while. yet i've now read plenty of classics by my own volition and presently reign as the smartest person on this forum. go figure.

but i read plenty as a kid: deltora quest, harry potter, lotr, etc. you know, books kids actually might want to read. jfl if you think they want to read the classics. and we live in the greatest time ever to be smart.. the internet has rendered education totally pointless, a smart kid will naturally find his way to further smartness via the internet, a dumb ass won't ever bother no matter how much you try to help him. i was the smartest from grade 1 and still am today, that iq don't change.

[ - ] UncleDoug 4 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 03:07:04 ago (+4/-0)

Equating Charles Dickens with that Harry poofter drivel is ludicrous.
Go get a job.

[ - ] BlueEyedAngloMasterRaceGod 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 03:39:33 ago (+1/-0)

i was equating it for a kid, but i'll take it a step further and say it is better than charles dickens, who didn't even write novels but stretched out serials and it shows. you're a slave to what you're told is 'good'. he ain't that good.

[ - ] UncleDoug 3 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 05:28:05 ago (+3/-0)

The best way to improve your English vocabulary is by reading Charles Dickens.

[ - ] BlueEyedAngloMasterRaceGod 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 06:58:08 ago (+1/-0)

nah, jack vance

[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 10:50:35 ago (+1/-0)

Most of his words are not unique or obscure English words, they are just made up for his fantasy and sci-fi light novels.

That's like implying zoomer phrases like 'skibidibi toilet rizz' is an extension of acceptable English language.

[ - ] BlueEyedAngloMasterRaceGod 0 points 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 21:52:25 ago (+0/-0)

don't act like you know what you're talking about

[ - ] albatrosv15 1 point 10 monthsJul 5, 2024 02:13:35 ago (+1/-0)

Statistically you are correct. However, i remember when i(i was something 10 years old) was reading all d'artagnan books and i was in the middle of Twenty Years After, my sister told me i was wasting time reading fairy tales. Now my sister is proud that her daughter is reading so much. Except she is not reading classics, she is reading modern fairy tales, like Eragon and shit.