What I'm reading right now, part 1
I've actually been reading this book for a few weeks now. It takes me longer to finish nonfiction because I mostly limit myself to reading educational books during our study times. Fiction books I can devour at an average rate of 2-3 per week.
So, even though it's taking me forever to finish this book, I really like it! I have never been one for history much; I think because in school it was just so gosh darn boring with memorizing dates and other facts. My entire 16-year mantra was "memorize just enough to get an A on the test and then promptly forget it all". But I really like when history is put into a single perspective like this. How Lincoln Learned to Read is an overview of twelve famous Americans in the context of their educations, which really makes history come alive (to use a terrible cliche).
It's also interesting because I am really on a kick to learn as much as I can about education. Most of these twelve people had very different educations from what we are used to as a collective country today. There were good points and less favorable points to each, but the fascinating part is how they all came out as what most people would consider "successes".
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