Do you read well?

You can always read better!

If we are going to be reading people, who take the time to read regularly and voluminously, then we should all be mindful and motivated to read well, and as such, any resources to further foster growth in such areas, should be readeemed!

In a post titled, Stop cleaning the kitchen and read a book: For homeschool mothers, educating themselves is a revolutionary act, Susan Wise Bauer, introduces her ideas in this post with a critique of the modern culture of learning…

When I teach college freshmen, the hardest thing I have to do is convince them to talk back to me. They sit nicely and write down what I say, but they’re afraid they might say the wrong thing if they talk back to me. They are not accustomed to conversing with any sort of give and take. And why should they be? They’ve spent most of the previous twelve years sitting and being lectured to. They have become passive learners. Most of us were taught to accept this as a primary method of learning.

In order to embark on the project of classical education— not just for our children, but also for ourselves—we have to rediscover a much older way of thinking. For us to really enter into the project of classical education, we have to change our perspective from “I could be educated if I could go through school again” or “I could be educated if I had time to enroll in a graduate program” to “I can educate myself.” We have to think about how we will enter into classical education along with our children.

In order to get educated, we do not have to go to graduate school. We have to read, take notes on what we read, and discuss ideas with our friends.

The first step in classical self-education is to turn away from the classroom and turn towards reading…

To fulfill this reality, after some further reflection, Bauer introduces her answer:

So what are those skills?
Start here: Reading is a three-level process.

I encourage you go read the whole article and read through this three-level process, which you can find… HERE!

You could also take a look at J. Taylor’s post, where this post you are reading, was sourced from, which is a nice synthesis of what Bauer’s article entails… HERE!

Readeeming the Time!

Jonny

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