Now the reference to "The 300" was quite interesting. Having a discussion today at lunch with my 27 year old I brought up "The Stand" to help in explaining a BBCA series. She said the book was ok but the mini-series made the story easier to understand because of the visuals. Which made it easier to deal with the wide disparity of locations and continued movement of people.
I guess that made the mini-series kind of like modern Cliff Notes!

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Though (mostly) true, it doesn't change the fact that we (in the US) throw more and more money at education getting less and less value. And for that I blame parents who, for all the reasons you mention, don't take an interest in their childrens' educations.

I'm not suggesting that they take over the task... but they could encourage their children to explore "educational" venues. Whether libraries or nature centers or just the History Channel once in a while.

How many children read graphic novels... and don't realize the The 300 is a true story (give or take some aggregious poetic license.) If they did, might they not learn more about what happened just before or just after... or Troy... or Robin Hood. It would be so simple... just to say "There's more to that story ya know." and send them off to the library (damn, I almost forgot...) or to the computer!! and find out. And then say "Tell me about it tonight at dinner."