Thursday, February 7, 2013

Requiring Ayn Rand To Graduate

Oy:

Idaho state Sen. John Goedde (R), chairman of the Education Committee, introduced legislation to require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and pass a test on it to graduate from high school, the Spokane Spokesman-Review reports.

You can't make this stuff up.

In the comments, one person writes:

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

1 comment:

  1. Read all about Ayn Rand's version of the perfect man, William Edward Hickman, a sociopath who kidnapped and murdered a 12 year old girl and shoved her head and torso wrapped in blankets out of a car in front of her father who'd just paid him a ransom. Funny Paul Ryan the Rmoney Running mate is ahuge Ayn Rand fan but somehow he failed to mention his favorite authors rolde model and ideal man. http://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hickman-william.htm

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