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Not reading won’t kill you, but it will also make you a less interesting, engaged, and intellectual person

reading literature also helps to develop an individual’s emotional literacy

Reading about an event or the inner working of someone else’s mind or emotions stimulates the human brain to experience those same feelings or to essentially have the same experience in terms of memory that they would have if they actually did the activity or experienced the emotions themselves

The main activity of a college education is critical thinking and intellectual engagement: most of the background work for this endeavor is done through reading

Ubiquitous video, or some other information technology, may one day overtake the written word as the foundation of our literacy, but for the moment, reading and writing are the keys to full and fruitful participation in human society