Comment by coldtea

>The comment you're responding to is talking about books that students will "barely understand".

That's how you get to understand something you "barely understand". You dive into it, and gradually you understand it better.

I understood classic novels in high school just fine. Further experience reveals more layers, but you still get lots of life lessons, and poetic moments, and better grasp of people and life, and introduction into a culture that's not just consuming slop, from reading them as a teenager.