Thread: Contemporary "Classics" ?

I still remember a few of the classics I read in high school. Julius Ceaser and Lord of the Flies comes to mind. Also Beowolf in the old English Language. I can still remember and recite the first few lines of that one. We do our children an injustice when we don't teach these classics. They need to know what our literary foundation is and where it came from. Should we forget our past, our future is very dim.