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Education...has Produced A Vast Population Able To Read But Unable To Distinguish What Is Worth Reading.
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Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to
distinguish what is worth reading.
-- George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962)
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
-- George Bernard Shaw...
I took a course in speed reading and was able to read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes.
It's about Russia. -- Woody Alle...
The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
"Too much emphasis is placed on the development of reading skills in elementary school....
An article in the Spring 1990 issue of Arlo Guthrie's Rolling Blunder Review describing the risks of reading RBR, concludes with the flawlessly logical sentence
"In other words, if our readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding....
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read. MACAULAY
What worth has beauty if it be not seen? -- Proverb
A book worth banning is a book worth reading.