Kind of wish there were a box of influential books distributed to every 12-year old. Like the Finnish baby box, but for cognition.
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@starsandrobots The Authoritarians (Bob Altemeyer). Deschooling Society (Ivan Illich). Seeing Like a State (James C Scott)... woops, theme. - End of conversation
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@starsandrobots Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Journal of John Woolman. -
@starsandrobots in fact you may need, not a box, but a five foot shelf :) http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_(Bookshelf) … -
@noahlt ha! This is great
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@starsandrobots Both Alice books by Lewis Carroll -
@steampunk_prof@starsandrobots very much agreed!
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@starsandrobots The Monkey Wrench GangThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots Sophie's World. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. A Room of One's Own. Self-Reliance.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots Guns, Germs and Steel? I wish there was a more 12yo-friendly version of it though; it's pretty long and repetitive. -
@sundress@starsandrobots interestingly enough, Diamond made an edition "for young people" of one of his other books http://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Chimpanzee-Young-People/dp/1609805224 …
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@starsandrobots The Elements by Theodore Gray. Choose-your-own-Adventure stories.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots The Mind Within the Brain.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots my 12-yr old enjoyed A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking, and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_of_Reality … should definitely be there.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots Off you want an engineering book The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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