ChartresG. Gray, Hstoria of MusicItalian Renaissance: Symonds, The Renaissance in ItalyN. Machiavelli, The PrinceEurope's century 16: Rabelais, Gantgantua and PantagruelMontaigne, EssaysCervantes, D. QuixoteShaekspeare, partsEurope of the 17th century: La Rochefoucauld, ReflectionsMoliere, parts.Francis Bacon, testingHobbes, LeviathanEurope 18th century: Voltaire, worksRousseau, ConfessionsSwift, Gulliver's TravelMoisture, Treaty on human natureEurope from the 19th century: Goethe, FaustV. Hugo, The wretchedDickens, Rukwick Capars (?)Dostevski, Brothers KaramazovTolstoy, War and PeaceDarwin, The descent of man.America: C. Beard, The Rise of American CivilizationPoe, poems and storiesEmerson, testingThoureau, WaldenWhitman, Leave of GrassLincoln, Letters and SpeechesThe Century 20: H. Adams, Education of Adam HinuyBergson, The Evolution CreatorSpengler, the decline of the Westobs. This idea of "University in six months" has the lamented journalist Paul Francis."There are things the right time." I will get there! Faith, ever. I thought i was losted:" A guide to culture, by Paul Francis 'A basic bibliography for those who want to understand the adventure of humanity Asked my file for young pre-academic... I do not have. I tried a master's degree in Columbia University in New York 1954, but quit, consult the teacher-professor Eric Bentley. You thought I lost my time. I read all the relevant literature, from Aeschylus to Beckett, and knew almost by heart the Poetics of Aristotle. In a few months if everything you read what's important in theater. I have read and reread years.But without a doctorate or master's or even, I would make some information to young people who, in my time, would be superfluous, but now, maybe have a taste for novelty. I speak of obtaining general knowledge. It's easy.Education was the transmission of an accumulation of knowledge. Today, it is a cringing youth, which supposedly should do what it pleases, to be on their own, as they say, and the result is that the rectors of universities suggest that there is no more than note admission, which let those who have less note low. It should be no exception, otherwise the civilized world would, but the crisis is real, denounced by people like Prince Charles, heir to the English throne, and by intellectuals like Alan Bloom, who consider the university lost in the U.S.. In Brazil, there was the Reformation Birds in the 60s. The military dictatorship had the same defect on the left. I wanted to be popular. It was populist. I wanted to facilitate access to university people, as the catechism Resa populist. Threat widespread illiteracy.There is no alternative to reading. I would point out some essential books to the young, even a minimum program, but that, if implemented, will increase dramatically the student's understanding of the world where he is living. Starting with Brazil, it is essential to read 'Os Sertoes' of Euclides da Cunha. It is short and is not model-style. Euclid writes as Janio Quadros speech. It is man's far-hey you, the oblique way that Janio boasts. But the book is genius. Gives us the reality of the wilderness, that is, for practical purposes almost everywhere in Brazil, making the South, the reality of the swing, and our civilization as late as culture, as an organization