====== b.CD ======
A CD-ROM can hold a lot of data; 650 megabytes is plenty of space to hold an entire education, if the space is used wisely.  An entire liberal education could be placed on one disc.

This is a "desert island" kind of problem.  Suppose you were stranded on a deserted island with only a cheesy solar-powered plain-text reader and one CD.  What would be on the CD?

Assumptions
  * The student is literate (8th-grade education?)
  * This is an English-language education.  (Though some foreign-language material will be included.)
  * It should be possible to master this material without a teacher.
  









====== Challenge I: The ASCII Canon======
This entire program is verbal.  This makes the material applicable to many students (including the blind and deaf) and it can be reproduced in many media.

  * Verbal instructions for creating simple line drawings are in a language suitable for automation.
  * A combination of [[|Wikipedia]] and ETexts from [[http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page|Project Geutenberg]] might make a good start.
  * The use of ASCII art is very limited.
  * Use a very limited wiki syntax system.
  * 8.3 filenames and no directories?


Let's start with the reading list from the [[bcd:stjohnread|St. John's College curriculum]].  Project Gutenberg has a [[http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/pgiso/|CD-ISO creator]] available.  It may help to get an [[http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds|index of all their books]].

Wikipedia has a list of [[wp>Wikipedia:Good_articles|good articles]], and one of [[wp>Wikipedia:Vital_articles|vital articles]].  They are also planning a [[wp>Wikipedia:Release_Version|cd elease]].  However, these include images.

====== Challenge II: Multimedia Support ======
  * One music CD

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  * [[http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtward.html|A Lifetime's Reading]]: The World's 500 Greatest Books by Philip Ward
  *[[http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html#indexes|Great Books Lists]]
  *[[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1302&parent=1003|The Reading List]] of the St. John's College curriculum