What you learn during literature lessons is how to appreciate good literature. So why do the teachers use up the great classics to teach you this? They thereby destroy the pleasure you could have had, reading the classics as brand new works with your acquired skills.
The standard literature in school and at the universities should instead be Janet Evanovich and Dan Brown. If we were to use them to learn what good literature should have been like, we would appreciate Dickens and Proust much more when we finally were allowed to start reading the real master pieces.
If a teacher forces you to read Oliver Twist before you are able to appreciate it, he commits the horrible crime of depriving you of the experience of having an understanding mind when you read Oliver Twist for the first time.
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