Sunday, February 06, 2011

What it means to be educated...


I'm not really sure, but I found a list of the most cited works read by our Founding Fathers. I am wondering if my local library even carries most of these titles.
What I do know is that our Founding Fathers prepared themselves to give liberty and equality to the common man, something that had never been done before.
These are the works that inspired them.

4 comments:

GeNee said...

That is good to know.

Circe said...

I zoned out reading the list. That's how uneducated I am. But if you start reading all those authors, please blog about it so I can feel smart. Cliff's notes, please!

SSWS said...

most of them I haven't even heard of.....except for, um, Shakespeare... Can I sign up for Cliff's notes too? No wonder why the Founding fathers were brilliant, I wonder what would happen to me if I read all those works..hmmm.

Alicia said...

I have read works from #'s 1, 4, 6, 12, 18, 20, 22, 23, 25, 28, and 31. If you major in Philosophy at BYU (which I considered for a little while), you'll cover all those bases. But never fear, those authors have been re-translated time and time and time again into contemporary works. Of all the ones I've read, John Locke was the most difficult, probably because I did it on my own without a teacher to help me. John Milton is equally as hard, but I had a good teacher so it was easy.