[Prestidigitweeze]

Curricula shouldn't be determined by user ratings, should they? If they were, we'd have studied for fun without needing to go to school. Doesn't matter whether people's early course of study coincides with what they end up preferring to read.

Whether Shakespeare "lights a spark in you" or not (he isn't instant coffee!), he still needs to be taught. "Lend me your ears" might have been what you took away from Julius Caesar as a kid, but that isn't Shakespeare's fault any more than his rep was determined by hivemind.

Besides which, you might find yourself watching that play again some time and notice the "honorable men" speech. That's where I learned the technique of repeating an idea to make listeners come to the opposite conclusion. You can appear to be an advocate even as your words have the effect of damning evidence.

I've used it in offices and meetings and that technique still works. JC's full of bits like that.