[Mad Dawgg]

"I first read 1984 in high school and did not really understand it then. I've read it again a few times since then. Each time I read it I am more impressed."

I think there should be a mandatory class for Seniors in American High Schools and each student would be required to Read:

1. Atlas Shrugged

2. 1984

3. Animal Farm

4. Brave New World.

Sadly I think the liberal education dweebs would happily agree and morph the books into "How To" instruction manuals for aspiring Socialist Nutjobs!

[detective]

It would require a very good teacher to get high school students to truly understand the principles in these books but it is certainly worth a try.

I have read 1984 and Animal Farm in high school. I read 1984 three or four times as an adult and I am amazed by the description of the world controlled by a totalitarian elite. You really need life experience to understand it.

I read Brave New World as an adult. It is an impressive work. There are similarities to 1984 but it emphasizes drugs and persuasion more than brute force as the means for a small group of totalitarians to gain control.

I have never read Atlas Shrugged. I saw the movie The Fountainhead with Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper. It was a great film.