Why Read?

Why Read?

A scholar and author of Teacher: The One Who Made a Difference argues that questions about the uses of literature are essential to a literary education and that reading not for only training and education, but also for pleasure, can change students' lives for the better. Reprint.
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Lloyd Dalton@daltonlp
4 stars
Sep 16, 2021

What faces us is the prospect of a world where meaning withdraws and people are left in the midst of soul-destroying emptiness, hopping and blinking and taking their little poison for the day and their little poison for the night.

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Ari Hertz@arihertz
3 stars
Jun 24, 2022