The Government's Curriculum: Dictator of Our Future

This is a continuation to my prior post stating on how today's readers are accrediting stale cut-and-dry introductory works of fiction as literature of top publications and how the current curriculum is just recycling these pieces into the minds of young aspiring students. Going into further detail you obtain a better introspective on why you see these same works as top accredited books throughout time, both in classrooms and anywhere in your local bookstore. It's almost like a pattern, most of today's readers have been reading avidly since maybe their sophomore or junior years of high school. The reason we aren't seeing these more contemplative and higher level literary forms of writing isn't because they're boring or too complex for students and readers to understand, but because it isn't introduced into the minds of students in their most crucial time, high school. I oppose the idea that students today would not be able to comprehend literary masters like Dante, or Walt Whitman, or even Shakespeare; had any works from these poets been introduced to me in my earlier years I think I'd be a better reader and duly had I also been a better writer. If you don't present these kind of intuitive writings into the minds of students how do you expect them to be able to be such well-off learners and thinkers? The level which students are able to comprehend these kinds of literature isn't limited to the student's individual knowledge but more so on their impression of formal literature and the depth of that teacher's confidence in teaching it to the students while also understanding it. If the curriculum continues to exact the same books that are solely driven by cultural ideas of right and wrong how much further until these same ideas begin to dictate the mindset and lifestyle of our younger generation?