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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Depends. If you want to scare them away from reading, you really should go that way!
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Looking at typical reading lists that does seem to be their goal.
They already do a great job at beating down kids natural inquisitiveness.
Historically, public schools' unstated goal has been to produce efficient industrial age workers; educated just well enough to carry out their jobs but not educated enough to question authority, especially state authority. Of course, this leaves them vulnerable to demagogues, cults, and urban legends but states generally find the trade-off acceptable.
Killing a love of reading does fit that model since it minimizes the risk the future workers might educate themselves.