Comments on: Testing your understanding of an author’s words http://rogercostello.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/testing-your-understanding-of-an-authors-words/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:32:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: kdzugan http://rogercostello.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/testing-your-understanding-of-an-authors-words/#comment-994 kdzugan Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:01:57 +0000 http://rogercostello.wordpress.com/?p=257#comment-994 Why settle for a brief quote? Read the entire book. Here is what “How to Read a Book” did for me. I have been a voracious reader all my life. I never thought that I needed to know anything more about how to read. However 1990 I read about a book by someone named Mortimer Adler whom I had never heard of. The title of the book was “How to Read a Book.” Even though I thought I knew everything about how to read I became intrigued by the title. I finally bought the book. I read it and then I read it again, and again, and again. Over the course of several years Dr. Adler dramatically changed what I read, how I read, and why I read. I used to read predominantly to be entertained. Now I read to learn. Using what Dr. Adler taught me, I now get in order of magnitude more out of books that I ever did before. Dr. Adler was a brilliant and prolific author, educator, philosopher, and lecturer. He wrote more than 50 books and 200 articles, all of which can be read with pleasure and profit. FFor more information on Mortimer Adler and his work, visit www.thegreatideas.org, The Center for the Study of The Great Ideas Ken Dzugan Senior Fellow and Archivist The Center for the Study of The Great Ideas Why settle for a brief quote? Read the entire book. Here is what “How to Read a Book” did for me.

I have been a voracious reader all my life. I never thought that I needed to know anything more about how to read. However 1990 I read about a book by someone named Mortimer Adler whom I had never heard of. The title of the book was “How to Read a Book.” Even though I thought I knew everything about how to read I became intrigued by the title. I finally bought the book. I read it and then I read it again, and again, and again. Over the course of several years Dr. Adler dramatically changed what I read, how I read, and why I read. I used to read predominantly to be entertained. Now I read to learn. Using what Dr. Adler taught me, I now get in order of magnitude more out of books that I ever did before.

Dr. Adler was a brilliant and prolific author, educator, philosopher, and lecturer. He wrote more than 50 books and 200 articles, all of which can be read with pleasure and profit.

FFor more information on Mortimer Adler and his work, visit http://www.thegreatideas.org, The Center for the Study of The Great Ideas

Ken Dzugan
Senior Fellow and Archivist
The Center for the Study of The Great Ideas

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