Who do you mean when you say barbarians?
H. L. Mencken used to call them the great unwashed. But I believe that these kinds of terms are outmoded by the educational levels reached today. Most of my frfends come from the upper strata of society. They are doctors, lawyers, engineers, computer specialists, etc. No one could call them barbarians. Yet very few of them read.
For years educators have been preaching that a sprinkling of liberal arts couses should be integrated into the curriculum of those taking the more technical courses. But it is difficult to tell or teach those students in the throes of solving differential equations that they should devote some student time to the discovery of Shakespeare.
Let's face it. Those who are inveterate readers with a love of literature are probably born, not made. Literature will always be an elite occupation. Those who learn to read early and show early ability in the understanding of literature, will have a lifetime of pleasure. Those that don't, cannot be force fed into the pleasures and self assurance that literature brings.
There areall kind of people in the world
Some of them just can't break their mental limits .
to make more interesting reading
you must turn the books into the forbidden fruit : when it is forbidden to read the people will begin to read .( as seen also in the movie Fahrenheit 451 ).