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by samaltmanfried 743 days ago
> I also personally don't want to live in a world where a significant portion of people don't know basic history...

I think you've already been living in that world for a while now. I'm having trouble finding it right now, but has anyone seen those lists of what books students were reading in the late 19th, early 20th century? Not that long ago students were reading classics like Dickens or Tolkien. These days that's well beyond the literacy of the average US middle/high school student.