Interesting how many of these all-time wrongheaded books are required reading on college campuses. I was tremendously influenced by #9 Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil - I have heard it said that every college student is a nihilist for at least one semester. People tend to forget that all ideas come from somewhere. Even today I have a Nietzsche quote on my wall: "The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claims that meanwhile we have improved." I learned Keynesian economics in Macroeconomics 102, Skinner in Psychology 101, Rachel Carson on my own, and Darwin practically everywhere. The goal of the public education system in Pennsylvania is explicitly Darwinistic - to equip students "to succeed in an increasingly competitive world." The state board of education voted 9-2 a few years ago to modify the curriculum to teach evolution as fact in all public schools. The list of harmful books is pretty close to the core reading list at State College.
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Interesting how many of these all-time wrongheaded books are required reading on college campuses. I was tremendously influenced by #9 Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil - I have heard it said that every college student is a nihilist for at least one semester. People tend to forget that all ideas come from somewhere. Even today I have a Nietzsche quote on my wall: "The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claims that meanwhile we have improved." I learned Keynesian economics in Macroeconomics 102, Skinner in Psychology 101, Rachel Carson on my own, and Darwin practically everywhere. The goal of the public education system in Pennsylvania is explicitly Darwinistic - to equip students "to succeed in an increasingly competitive world." The state board of education voted 9-2 a few years ago to modify the curriculum to teach evolution as fact in all public schools. The list of harmful books is pretty close to the core reading list at State College.
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