September 20, 2007
Why I Write Book Reviews
This is part of the reason why I write book reviews (other than that it is fun of course). While I can't provide a reading course, I can provide solid thinking about reading from my own perspective.
"Perhaps if people today were to take good reading course, they would be better off. Americans don't read enough (that's true) and Americans read too much (that's true too). What I mean is that many don't read enough material to really be informed, and yet they read too much because what they do read they often do not stop to assimilate and think through. They whiz through it and get what I call a first-order experience, a sort of mystical feeling, not a genuine understanding. I urge you, with all my soul, in such a day as ours to really, truly learn to read"
Francis Schaeffer Back to Freedom and Dignity ( InterVarsity Press, 1972), p. 18.
Posted by John on September 20, 2007 09:38 AM | Posted to Literature and Language | Personal JournalShare:
Great quote!!
Posted by: Joanna on September 20, 2007 09:40 AMI remember reading Frankie's Addicted to Mediocrity. Good book...Not that I got through it.
-C
Posted by: Carole McDonnell on September 20, 2007 07:23 PMThe only Schaeffer I've ever gotten through is his Christian Manifesto. This was a quote that was floating over the internet and a friend sent me that I thought was appropriate.
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