CHAPTER 3:Telemachus and the Outside World
He dawdles by the television with tired eyes. He looks like a teenage student listening to a religious teacher analyse deeper meanings of the Israelites passing through the desert and Enoch’s family tree for six straight hours.
Telemachus often wondered why he had to learn, by heart, altered pieces of foreign history and religion. Upon growing up, he considered all the Greek history he learnt during his school years a fairly shortened and distorted version. Instead, he was encumbered with useless knowledge, alien to his national identity. The whole Greek educational system could be described as peculiar, at the very least. As if the ones responsible for fighting common sense in the governmental structure wished to apply it to schooling too.
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