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  • Reading the Vanishing Volumes While You Still Can

    Reading the Vanishing Volumes While You Still Can0

    Reading through online headlines I often see a story entitled, “Demi Moore at 58 Hasn’t Aged Well.” Though I’ve never clicked on that link, I did google “Demi Moore at 58” and thought she looked pretty darn good. Sure, she’s probably gone under the plastic surgeon’s knife a few times—those high cheek bones seem a

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  • Reading Silently Used to be Considered WEIRD

    Reading Silently Used to be Considered WEIRD0

    Nowadays, the norm when reading a book alone is to read it silently to oneself. Apparently, this practice was unusual in the ancient world. As an undergraduate I had to read St. Augustine’s Confessions (397-400), which some claim to be the first autobiography written in the Western world. At the time, I remember being taken

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  • Reading Philosophy on Your Own

    Reading Philosophy on Your Own0

    Reading philosophy can be tough-going, and ideally, you have an expert to help you through it – at least initially. However, philosophy now has a diminished role in modern curricula, leaving most people to fend for themselves if they want to gain familiarity with the Western philosophical tradition. For those who would like to venture

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  • Reading Levels: 1908 vs. 2014

    Reading Levels: 1908 vs. 20140

    • January 13, 2015

    Some of you may remember the 1908 curriculum manual I dug up in the Minnesota Historical Society archives a few months ago. When compared with a current public school reading list, it demonstrated that today’s schools are offering a more narrow view of western civilization and a simplified level of reading material. I thought of this manual

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  • Reading Gatekeepers – the Parental Responsibility Experts Want You to Forget

    Reading Gatekeepers – the Parental Responsibility Experts Want You to Forget14

    I came across a twofold piece of good news the other day: 1) There is still something about which Americans are almost in complete agreement; 2) People want their children to become avid readers. This information stems from the chart below, gleaned from a recent NPR article which reported that a whopping 98% of respondents

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  • Reading for Rest in a Chaotic World

    Reading for Rest in a Chaotic World1

    “Annie, you know more about children’s literature than anyone I’ve ever known,” a friend remarked to me a while back. Rolling my eyes, I laughingly denied this claim. “Nonsense!” I replied, “I know someone who is far more knowledgeable about children’s literature than I am!” I was talking about a woman whom I will call

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