The Great Books are the easiest route, for the lay intellectual, into the life of the mind
Also, Sinclair Lewis is underrated
I've written before about how I'm not overly concerned with the education of the average person. If you're talking about which five to ten books will a college student read before passing out of college and taking up their career, then that's a sociological question. You're not asking "How can I best help this person to achieve their own goals?" Instead…
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