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When I was in third grade I started homeschooling. Once I caught up on the gap between public and home school standards I started having a lot of free time. This is when my mom started buying me books like “The Call of the Wild”, “Last of the Mohicans”, “Greek Mythology”, and other classics. I still to this day can not tell you how much good this has done for me.

Because of free time and curiosity made more available by my being home schooled at the time I learned to love reading books that were held in high esteem. This later extended to a curiosity on any and all censored books, starting with Orwell.

I have gotten more value out of these than I am able to tell you, and I haven’t even scratched the surface of the real classics. It has stretched my mind every time that I have pushed myself to understand these difficult reads. It has made my mind faster, and my wit sharper.

And the more taboo a book, the more I’ve gotten out of it. Karl Marx for example… I do not agree with the man. He presented some real problems, but none of his suggestions addressed the problems he brought up. He masked this by hiding behind his impressive vocabulary. Unfortunately his vocabulary seemed to be more to hide the weaknesses of his arguments than to clarify his purpose with the most accurate words. Because I pushed myself to read that I now know what really is and isn’t Marxist. I learned what we were supposed to be fighting.

But by censoring the reading of Marx due to fears of people converting to his way of thinking we began paving the way to put all ten planks of Marx’s Communist Manifesto in place, and if you haven’t read the book, its difficult to know this.

Rather than trying to hide an idea that you find false or even evil, show it in full, and expose it. After all, if your idea is really the better one, than let all information be seen, and let people come to their own conclusions. Truth will win out in the end.