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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
Now I'm wondering - Animal Farm, 1984 and Brave New World are pretty much mandatory high school reading in the US. Is it the same in Australia?
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Dear CP,
I can't say for sure that these books were/are mandatory in Oz schools...just that my English teacher took us on an excrusion to see the cartoon film version in the early 1970's. It stuck in my mind ever since.
With the watering-down in OZ schools, I don't think kids are even taught to read and write any more...let alone be introduced to something that is intellectually stimulating.
I imagine that the whole threat of communism was in the fore-front of the USA's political conscience (and for damned good reasons), and what better way to educate young'ns about a system that sounds great but runs like a busted ar$e in practice. If only its designers had taken human nature into account, they'd have realised what works for ants and bees is NBG for us.
...and I'll repeat...what's the bet they don't even fix the kids teeth?
Much love and hugs,
The Stoat XXX