I wonder if you could develop an American history curriculum around important rhetorical demonstrations I bet you could Some good stuff in there Start with the speech and and wind outward through context, ever wider End on the speech to keep it a lynchpin
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"it builds character"
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unironically
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if they made them read War and Peace instead we’d be on mars by now.
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no, we'd be living in poorly-staffed anarchistic communes propped up by autocracy and royalties, fending off armies of scribes and wincing through occasional bouts of recurrent syphilis
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In twelve grades I never had a single class on Ancient Rome. Really makes you think
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I had a unit on it in grade school (catholic) Still remember the cool diagram (basically virgin vs Chad style) where it had a roman soldier engineer chilling out on a roman road and illustrating all the cool stuff in his life and profession
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in bulgaria we had to memorize patriotic poems and stuff and it was great imo
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"i am a bulgarian, born of a strong mother" etc. etc.
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When we did Macbeth in English class as a junior our teacher made us pick a passage or monologue from the play and memorize it. I honestly wish more of my teachers did that.
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