How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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Reading is a complicated activity involving many different steps in each of which we can acquire more and more skill throught practica as in the case of any other art.

No matter whether the reading is to learn or the earn, it can be done poorly or well.

We are stuffed, not educated by the school system.

The best teachers are those who make the fewest pretensions. The teacher should show that he is only crawling. He is not that far above us, he is also humbling.

[[We tend to read carefuly only when we are reading subject in our own narrow field]]

One of the priamry rules for reading anything is to spot the most important words the author uses. You have to know how they are being used.

[[Art of reading is the skill of catching every sort of communication as well as possible]]

[[Reading is as complex activity as writing is]]

The book consist of language written by someone for the sake of communicating something to you.

[[Reading skill can be measured by the extend to which you understand what the writer meant to communicate]].

If upon effordless inspection, a book is completely understable to you, then the author and you are as two minds in the same world.

When you don't understand everything perfectly the author has to say.

[[When you can write well, you can think well. Clarity of writing indicated clarity of thinking]]