The Thin Canon

>>7573896
Never heard of this, though there's a bunch of classical writings that could fit in this. The most obvious contenders would be plays, whether by the Greek playwrights, or Shakespeare, but you could also fit most of Plato's dialogues, Xenophon's dialogues, several works by Aristotle, the treatises of Descartes, Locke, and Rousseau, Leibniz's essays, etc. etc.

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>Obviously, we want all kids to eventually work their way up to A Treatise of Human Nature or the Critique of Pure Reason
>or

Why not "and," sir?

>>7573896

To get kids into poetry, have them read Yeats, and some lightweight poets like Heaney and Larkin. If this doesn't work, feed them some Eliot and Pound poems. This will work.

For novels I'm not sure.

For philosophy, I think most people want to take part in it, but simply find it intimidating to start, and many people start acting like they're Plato reincarnated. So it's difficult.

>>7573896
>he doesn't like Things fall apart

>>7573896
Gilgamesh was the first thing that crept to mind.

The Odyssey isn't thin by any means but it's episodic enough to hold a kid's interest and I think it's a pretty ideal starting point.

Not sure how young you mean, but I don't think it's easy to get most kids into philosophy, Locke's treatise, allegory of the cave or your pic related might be good entry points.