It’s Time to Burn the Books

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It is a melancholy object to those who attend this great school or those similar, when they see the desks, the tables, and the lockers cluttered with textbooks of literature, often accompanied by a rather thick notebook, and importuning all with the reminder of wasted hours in that dreaded classroom. This class, rather than filled with the teachings of unique and worthwhile lore, instead is saturated with utterly boring and useless information. This class, when one has finally settled in life, has no effect on the outcome of his important decisions. This class leaves a horrid impression on the poor child; so horrible that he may never properly recover.

I think it is agreed by all that this infinite number of books in the arms, or on the backs, or in the lockers of their respective student owners (and, in my own humble opinion, the classes too) is in the present a very cruel injustice. Therefore, anyone who could find a fair, cheap, and easy method of correcting incredible pain would deserve so much as to have an international holiday established in his honor. My intenti...

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