Can't We All Read Rousseau and Be Happy!

So I got my summer course book list. It just so happens that I'm taking an English course this summer. It's required. I HATED my introduction to English course which was also required. In that class we didn't read any books. I was bored out of my mind. Instead we learned the difference between there, their and they're - I believe that if english is your first language and if you got into a fairly good school, then you should KNOW the difference already.

Anyway, back to the book list; we're not reading classics. Rather, we're reading social commentaries on the American public educational system. Sigh. News headlines transformed into a book ... fun fun. Whatever happened to reading the classics? I am saddened by my lack of classical knowledge. Perhaps the American public educational system would improve if students were given the importunately to expound on classical thought rather than regurgitate recent news headlines while writing whimpy essays on "why smoking is bad for you."

On the topic of essays, since when was it written that you must have 3 supporting statements for a thesis? Exactly, it's not. Granted only having two supporters may seem a little too ill-prepared in some instances but why not shoot for four or five? Yep, that’s what I thought ….

Anyway, so everyone knows the Greeks right? Those lofty mortals who left behind a trail of classical literature? Were they really so original? Why did they have to wear togas?