kalavinka's "hated it! - high school required reading"

I should make a university list but I threw away all my syllabi so I can name authors in general but not specific texts. I remember writing an evaluation of a required course freshman year where I noted that the required canon should be reexamined. I felt then that we shouldn’t have to read certain so-called “classics” because times change and so should the coursework. I was of the mind that some things do lose their relevancy and we shouldn’t hold on to them due to nostalgia or tradition. (I just wanted the powers that be to ponder the possibility that some classic texts are now archaic.) This sort of thinking is also why I disliked much of the required books during high school.