The same way everybody else does it... - Edit 1Before modification by DomA at 27/01/2012 04:15:38 AM
And what would happen to those that fail to comply. Either way, I don't see it as being any more effective than a recommendation. The people that are interested in reading will look at it with interest and read what they want from there, and the people not into reading will go on ignoring literature. Not to mention that I'd be worried about a list of books being given by the government anyway. Not the sort of people I would trust to choose the best quality books.
Putin plans to add reading a canon of a hundred books by Russian authors to the school program for all Russian students, with an essay about one of these books to become part of their final exams.
He got his inspiration from a similar canon established in some American universities in the 20s...
Some have already called it "social engineering through mandated literature", but several nations have a list of required readings for all students (We have one such though ours is much shorter than 100 books. But a lot of people complain it should be much longer, and include French classics, not only littérature québécoise. I actually had to read about 20 incl. French literature, but in the public system it was 6 québécois novels)