[ SECRET POST #3182 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3182 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Many Americans do listen to/watch/read some classics, not all of the classics and, yeah, not a lot before we're ten (seriously, how much are you going understand about certain classics that aren't really meant for children at that point?). There's not enough time in the world to listen to/watch/read all of the classics, keep up with new media, do your chores, work and/or go to school, eat, sleep, socialize, and relax. Maybe there's more time in Europe? Or maybe we classify classics differently.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

There are a lot of demands on kinds after entering school. By age 10 you start Algebra, Geometry, Physics, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, workshop, home economy (cooking, stitching), gym.

Russian grammar is from grade 1, but by age 10 most are encouraged to learn English, and then of course we have Literature. Some schools only study Russian lit but mine had World Lit. Literature from around the world.

Kids are capable of a LOT by age 10!

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I went to a private school where we were taught French (we were near the Canadian border, so it seemed like it would be useful, I suppose) starting in kindergarten. We learned French songs, stories, and history starting from that young age. As we got older, they added more intense things, so by the time people graduated, they were reading classics in French as well as in English. (I moved before high school, so I didn't get to the end of that. Although I was still fluent enough in French that I passed out of the language requirements of college and could read reasonably well.) They also had us studying other cultures. I still remember the unit we had on Greek mythology from third grade and the unit on Japanese culture, poetry, and stories from the fourth grade.

The new school I went to was more English focused, but we still got the classics, depending on age/appropriate level. I even had an entire class on Shakespeare in the twelfth grade where I read and analyzed several of his plays. Then in college, I took classes on early English literature (mostly surrounding the medieval period, including King Arthur), and I read several classics from that period.

And this isn't even mentioning what I got at home, where my mother read to me every night until I was 10 or so (at which point I mostly just read on my own before bed), including classics such as youth versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Granted, I was fortunate, in that my parents encouraged reading (one of my first memories is my mother reading Charlotte's Web to me), in that I've always loved reading, and in that I went to good schools. But you are definitely giving very sweeping generalizations that I don't think are accurate.