I think Hamlet was the only part of the high school English curriculum I really appreciated and even then I suspect it had something to do with it ending with a pile of bodies. The literature that gets taught in schools is by and large pretentious horseshit. No one made me read Dune, Heinlein or Tolkien, but we sure as hell read some drug fueled fragmented narrative from some Vietnamese guy that made no sense and added nothing to my understanding or appreciation of literature.